red sandalwood

red sandalwood
    n 1: hard durable wood of red sandalwood trees (Pterocarpus
         santalinus); prized for cabinetwork [syn: {ruby wood}, {red
         sandalwood}]
    2: tree of India and East Indies yielding a hard fragrant timber
       prized for cabinetwork and dark red heartwood used as a
       dyewood [syn: {red sandalwood}, {red sanders}, {red
       sanderswood}, {red saunders}, {Pterocarpus santalinus}]
    3: East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers;
       cultivated as an ornamental [syn: {coralwood}, {coral-wood},
       {red sandalwood}, {Barbados pride}, {peacock flower fence},
       {Adenanthera pavonina}]
    

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