Santalum album

Santalum album
    n 1: parasitic tree of Indonesia and Malaysia having fragrant
         close-grained yellowish heartwood with insect repelling
         properties and used, e.g., for making chests [syn:
         {sandalwood tree}, {true sandalwood}, {Santalum album}]
    

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}).
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   {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
    

Kyaboca wood \Ky`a*bo"ca wood`\n. (Bot.)
   (a) Amboyna wood.
   (b) Sandalwood ({Santalum album}).
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