"Sandalwood" is a word in ENGLISH
Any tree of the genus Santalum, or a tree which yields
sandalwood.
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 S.
pyrularium, the Australian S. latifolium, etc. The name is extended to
several other kinds of fragrant wood.
The red wood of a kind of buckthorn, used in Russia for
dyeing leather (Rhamnus Dahuricus).
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A genus of trees with entire opposite leaves and small apetalous flowers. There are less than a dozen species, occurring …
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