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Red sandalwood

noun

Hard durable wood of red sandalwood trees (Pterocarpus santalinus); prized for cabinetwork. Synonym: ruby wood.

Tree of India and East Indies yielding a hard fragrant timber prized for cabinetwork and dark red heartwood used as a dyewood. Synonyms: Pterocarpus santalinus, red sanders, red sanderswood, red saunders.

East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers; cultivated as an ornamental. Synonyms: Adenanthera pavonina, Barbados pride, coral-wood, coralwood, peacock flower fence.

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"Red sandalwood" Quotes from Famous Books

... hands, put together in the form of the red lotus; the mass of rays coloured by the red sandalwood body of the thousand-eyed elephant of the eastern quarter having a thousand flames, the witness of things (which ought) to be done and not to be done, the unique sea-monster leaping over the row of cloud-waves of the celestial ...

— Hindoo Tales - Or, The Adventures of Ten Princes • Translated by P. W. Jacob

Words linked to "Red sandalwood" : genus Adenanthera, wood, Adenanthera, Pterocarpus, genus Pterocarpus, tree