Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of apetalous trees and shrubs, the sandalwoods, type of the order Santalaceæ, belonging to the tribe Osyrideæ.
- noun [lowercase] The wood of Pterocarpus Santalinus, often called
red saunders .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A genus of trees with entire opposite leaves and small apetalous flowers. There are less than a dozen species, occurring from India to Australia and the Pacific Islands. See
sandalwood .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany Any of the
genus Santalum oftrees with entire opposite leaves and smallapetalous flowers.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun parasitic trees of Indonesia and Malaysia
Etymologies
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See sandalwood.
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Examples
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Both yesterday and to-day, the 27th of April, we saw several stunted specimens of the sandal-wood-tree of commerce, santalum.
Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866
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A _santalum_, more nearly allied to the true sandel wood than any before seen in this country, was found on the borders of the bay.
A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 Matthew Flinders 1794
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'Nucem moschatam et cinnamomum vere spirat' -- [140] but to me it smelt like roses, santalum, and ambergris. "
Appreciations, with an Essay on Style Walter Pater 1866
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