Sandalwood Definition

săndl-wo͝od
noun
The hard, light-colored, closegrained, sweet-smelling heartwood of any of several allied trees of Asia, used for carving and cabinetmaking or burned as incense; esp., the wood of a S Asian evergreen tree (Santalum album) of the sandalwood family.
Webster's New World
Any of several other tropical Asian trees, especially those of the genera Adenanthera and Pterocarpus that yield a hard wood and a red dye.
American Heritage
Any tree yielding such wood.
Webster's New World
Any of a number of similar or related trees.
Webster's New World
The wood of any of these.
Webster's New World
adjective
Designating a family (Santalaceae, order Santalales) of dicotyledonous plants, shrubs, and trees including the quandong.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Sandalwood

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Singular:
sandalwood
Plural:
sandalwoods

Origin of Sandalwood

  • Middle English sandell, saundres, from Old French sandale, from Medieval Latin sandalum, from Ancient Greek σαγάλινος (santalinos, “of sandalwood"), from σάνδανον (sandanon), from Sanskrit चन्दन (candana)

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