'Pterocarpus santalinus' definitions:
Definition of 'Pterocarpus santalinus'
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noun
Tree of India and East Indies yielding a hard fragrant timber prized for cabinetwork and dark red heartwood used as a dyewood [syn: red sandalwood, red sanders, red sanderswood, red saunders, Pterocarpus santalinus]
Definition of 'Pterocarpus santalinus'
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- Redwood \Red"wood`\ (-w[oo^]d`), n. (Bot.) (a) A gigantic coniferous tree (Sequoia sempervirens) of California, and its light and durable reddish timber. See Sequoia. (b) An East Indian dyewood, obtained from {Pterocarpus santalinus}, Caesalpinia Sappan, and several other trees. [1913 Webster]
- Note: The redwood of Andaman is Pterocarpus dalbergioides; that of some parts of tropical America, several species of Erythoxylum; that of Brazil, the species of Humirium. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Pterocarpus santalinus'
From: GCIDE
- 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