sandalwood : Idioms & Phrases

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african sandalwood

  • noun small shrubby African tree with hard wood used as a dyewood yielding a red dye
    camwood; Baphia nitida.
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False sandalwood

  • the fragrant wood of several trees not of the genus Santalum, as Ximenia Americana, Myoporum tenuifolium of Tahiti.
Webster 1913

Red sandalwood

  • noun hard durable wood of red sandalwood trees (Pterocarpus santalinus); prized for cabinetwork
    ruby wood.
  • 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.
  • noun East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers; cultivated as an ornamental
    coralwood; Adenanthera pavonina; Barbados pride; coral-wood; peacock flower fence.
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  • 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

sandalwood family

  • noun chiefly tropical herbs or shrubs or trees bearing nuts or one-seeded fruit
    family Santalaceae; Santalaceae.
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sandalwood tree

  • noun parasitic tree of Indonesia and Malaysia having fragrant close-grained yellowish heartwood with insect repelling properties and used, e.g., for making chests
    sandalwood tree; Santalum album.
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true sandalwood

  • noun parasitic tree of Indonesia and Malaysia having fragrant close-grained yellowish heartwood with insect repelling properties and used, e.g., for making chests
    sandalwood tree; Santalum album.
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