red sandalwood

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noun East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers; cultivated as an ornamental
noun hard durable wood of red sandalwood trees (Pterocarpus santalinus); prized for cabinetwork
noun tree of India and East Indies yielding a hard fragrant timber prized for cabinetwork and dark red heartwood used as a dyewood

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