Sandalwood

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sandalwood \San"dal*wood\, n. [F. sandal, santal, fr. Ar.
     [,c]andal, or Gr. sa`ntalon; both ultimately fr. Skr.
     candana. Cf. {Sanders}.] (Bot.)
     (a) The highly perfumed yellowish heartwood of an East Indian
         and Polynesian tree ({Santalum album}), and of several
         other trees of the same genus, as the Hawaiian {Santalum


         Freycinetianum} and {Santalum pyrularium}, the Australian
         {Santalum latifolium}, etc. The name is extended to
         several other kinds of fragrant wood.
     (b) Any tree of the genus {Santalum}, or a tree which yields
         sandalwood.
     (c) The red wood of a kind of buckthorn, used in Russia for
         dyeing leather ({Rhamnus Dahuricus}).
         [1913 Webster]
  
     {False sandalwood}, the fragrant wood of several trees not of
        the genus {Santalum}, as {Ximenia Americana}, {Myoporum
        tenuifolium} of Tahiti.
  
     {Red sandalwood}, 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}.
        [1913 Webster] Sandarach

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sandalwood
       n : close-grained fragrant yellowish heartwood of the true
           sandalwood; has insect-repelling properties and is used
           for carving and cabinetwork