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Definition of True sandalwood

1. Noun. Parasitic tree of Indonesia and Malaysia having fragrant close-grained yellowish heartwood with insect repelling properties and used, e.g., for making chests.

Lexicographical Neighbors of True Sandalwood

Literary usage of True sandalwood

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

1. A Manual of Indian Timbers: An Account of the Growth, Distribution, and Uses by James Sykes Gamble (1902)
"The scent of Ka.lam.et is quite different, to judge by Hanson's specimens, from that of true sandalwood. It is rather difficult to describe, ..."

2. Pharmacographia Indica: A History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin by William Dymock (1893)
"Schimmel & Co. was found to agree exactly with that sold in the bazaar. It is used in India as a cheap substitute for true sandalwood. ..."

3. Forestry Quarterly by New York State College of Forestry (1916)
"With the decline of the true sandalwood the false sandalwood, Myoporum Sandwicense (DC.) Gray, was cut and shipped in its stead. This tree, called naio by ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... is known in the West Indies as sandalwood ; but the odour of the wood as well as of the oil, which is quite distinct from that of the true sandalwood, ..."

5. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... but the odor of the wood as well as of the oil, which is quite distinct from that of the true sandalwood, has more resemblance to that of a ..."

6. Tropical Agriculture: The Climate, Soils, Cultural Methods, Crops, Live by Earley Vernon Wilcox (1916)
"Sandalwood oil is derived from the wood of Santalum album, the true sandalwood tree, native of India, especially in Mysore, Coimbatore, and Malabar. ..."

7. The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands by Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1913)
"Finally a substitute was discovered, the Naio (Myoporum sandwicense A. Gray) or Bastard Sandalwood, though no relation to true Sandalwood; it, however, ..."

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