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| | | | | จันทน์ | [jan] (n) EN: sandalwood tree |
| | | red sandalwood | (n) tree of India and East Indies yielding a hard fragrant timber prized for cabinetwork and dark red heartwood used as a dyewood, Syn. red sanderswood, red saunders, Pterocarpus santalinus, red sanders | | sandalwood | (n) close-grained fragrant yellowish heartwood of the true sandalwood; has insect repelling properties and is used for carving and cabinetwork | | sandalwood tree | (n) parasitic tree of Indonesia and Malaysia having fragrant close-grained yellowish heartwood with insect repelling properties and used, e.g., for making chests, Syn. Santalum album, true sandalwood | | camwood | (n) small shrubby African tree with hard wood used as a dyewood yielding a red dye, Syn. Baphia nitida, African sandalwood | | coralwood | (n) East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers; cultivated as an ornamental, Syn. Barbados pride, peacock flower fence, coral-wood, Adenanthera pavonina, red sandalwood | | ruby wood | (n) hard durable wood of red sandalwood trees (Pterocarpus santalinus); prized for cabinetwork, Syn. red sandalwood | | santalaceae | (n) chiefly tropical herbs or shrubs or trees bearing nuts or one-seeded fruit, Syn. sandalwood family, family Santalaceae |
| | Sandalwood | n. [ F. sandal, santal, fr. Ar. çandal, or Gr. sa`ntalon; both ultimately fr. Skr. candana. Cf. Sanders. ] (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). [ 1913 Webster ]
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. [ 1913 Webster ]
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| | 紫檀 | [zǐ tán, ㄗˇ ㄊㄢˊ, 紫 檀] red sandalwood #38,206 [Add to Longdo] | | 栴 | [zhān, ㄓㄢ, 栴] sandalwood #381,337 [Add to Longdo] | | 欃 | [chán, ㄔㄢˊ, 欃] sandalwood (Santalum album), a Nepalese tree producing valuable fragrant oil; comet [Add to Longdo] | | 青檀 | [qīng tán, ㄑㄧㄥ ㄊㄢˊ, 青 檀] blue sandalwood (Pteroceltis tatarinowii Maxim), the bark of which is used to manufacture 宣紙|宣纸 [Add to Longdo] | | 青檀树 | [qīng tán shù, ㄑㄧㄥ ㄊㄢˊ ㄕㄨˋ, 青 檀 树 / 青 檀 樹] blue sandalwood (Pteroceltis tatarinowii Maxim), the bark of which is used to manufacture 宣紙|宣纸 [Add to Longdo] |
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