Sandalwood \San"dal*wood\, n. [F. sandal, santal, fr. Ar.
[,c]andal, 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] Sandarach
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Saunders -- U.S. County in Nebraska
Population (2000): 19830
Housing Units (2000): 8266
Land area (2000): 753.895158 sq. miles (1952.579413 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 4.921790 sq. miles (12.747377 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 758.816948 sq. miles (1965.326790 sq. km)
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 41.218350 N, 96.606171 W
Headwords:
Saunders
Saunders, NE
Saunders County
Saunders County, NE
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