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Definition of Red sandalwood

1. Noun. Hard durable wood of red sandalwood trees (Pterocarpus santalinus); prized for cabinetwork.

2. Noun. Tree of India and East Indies yielding a hard fragrant timber prized for cabinetwork and dark red heartwood used as a dyewood.

3. Noun. East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers; cultivated as an ornamental.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Red Sandalwood

red region red ribbon red ribbons red rice red ring red ring of death red ringed red ringing red rings red rings of death

red rocket red rockets red rockfish red route red salmon red sandalwood (current term) red sanders red sanderswood red saunders red scare

red setter red shift red shrubby penstemon red silk-cotton tree red silk cotton red silver fir red siskin red slender loris red snapper red snow

Literary usage of Red sandalwood

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"red sandalwood, known also as frd Sanders Wood, is the product of a small ... alcohol, or strong acetic acid, red sandalwood yields up to 16 per cent, ..."

2. Forest Products, Their Manufacture and Use: Embracing the Principal by Nelson Courtlandt Brown (1919)
"... which ^closely resemble it are sold as red sandalwood. All of these woods are commonly referred to in dyestuff circles as the insoluble redwoods. ..."

3. Forest Products, Their Manufacture and Use: Embracing the Principal by Nelson Courtlandt Brown (1919)
"... which closely resemble it are sold as red sandalwood. All of these woods are commonly referred to in dyestuff circles as the ..."

4. Wood: A Manual of the Natural History and Industrial Applications of the by George Simonds Boulger (1908)
"India, Burma, Moluccas, North Queensland, and cultivated in Tropical Africa and America. Known also as " Redwood " or " red sandalwood." Germ. ..."

5. Wood: A Manual of the Natural History and Industrial Applications of the by George Simonds Boulger (1908)
"India, Burma, Moluccas, North Queensland, and cultivated in Tropical Africa and America. Known also as " Redwood " or " red sandalwood." Germ. ..."

6. Pharmacographia Indica: A History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin by William Dymock, C. J. H. Warden, David Hooper (1890)
"Upon the subject of red sandalwood, Dutt (Materia Medica of the Hindus, p. ... Both sandalwood and red sandalwood are rubbed on a piece of stone with water, ..."

7. Origin and History of All the Pharmacopeial Vegetable Drugs, Chemicals and by John Uri Lloyd (1921)
"red sandalwood, red sanders, Pterocarpus santalinus, is a small tree native to the southern part of the Indian Peninsula, being found at Canara, ..."

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