Red sandalwood Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun hard durable wood of red sandalwood trees (Pterocarpus santalinus); prized for cabinetwork
    ruby wood.
  2. noun tree of India and East Indies yielding a hard fragrant timber prized for cabinetwork and dark red heartwood used as a dyewood
    red saunders; red sanders; red sanderswood; Pterocarpus santalinus.
  3. noun East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers; cultivated as an ornamental
    coralwood; Adenanthera pavonina; Barbados pride; coral-wood; peacock flower fence.

WordNet

Definitions
  1. a heavy, dark red dyewood, being the heartwood of two leguminous trees of India (Pterocarpus santalinus, and Adenanthera pavonina); called also red sanderswood, sanders or saunders, and rubywood.

Webster 1913