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 San·dal·wood n.  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).
 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.
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 red sandalwood
      n 1: hard durable wood of red sandalwood trees (Pterocarpus
           santalinus); prized for cabinetwork [syn: ruby wood]
      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 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,
          Barbados pride, peacock flower fence, Adenanthera
         pavonina]