Look up: Sandalwood

1. sandalwood
   [n] - close-grained fragrant yellowish heartwood of the true sandalwood
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2. Sandalwood
   San'dal·wood noun [ French sandal , santal , from Arabic çandal , or Greek sa`ntalon ; both ultimately from Sanskrit candana . Confer Sanders .] (Botany) (a) The highly perfumed yellowish...
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3. sandalwood
   Origin: F. Sandal, santal, fr. Ar. ... Candal, or Gr. Santalon; both ultimately fr. Skr. Candana. Cf. Sanders. ... <botany> 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 Fre...
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4. sandalwood
   noun close-grained fragrant yellowish heartwood of the true sandalwood; has insect repelling properties and is used for carving and cabinetwork
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5. Sandalwood
   • (n.) 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 S. pyrularium, the Australian S. latifolium, etc. The name is extended to several other kinds of fragr...
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6. sandalwood
   any semiparasitic plant of the genus Santalum (family Santalaceae), especially the fragrant wood of the true, or white, sandalwood, Santalum album. ... [3 related articles]
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7. sandalwood
   sandalwood, name for several fragrant tropical woods, especially for Santalum album, an evergreen partially parasitic tree either native to India or introduced there centuries ago. It is used for joss sticks in Buddhist religious ceremonies and funeral rites and is made into ornamental wares. Oil di...
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8. sandalwood
   Fragrant heartwood of any of several Asiatic and Australian trees, used for ornamental carving, in perfume, and burned as incense. (Genus Santalum, family Santalaceae.)
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9. Sandalwood
   `Sandalwood` is the name of a class of fragrant woods from trees in the genus Santalum. The woods are heavy, yellow, and fine-grained, and unlike many other aromatic woods they retain their fragrance for decades. As well as using the harvested and cut wood in-situ, essential oils are also ext...
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