'Saunders' definitions:
Definition of 'Saunders'
From: GCIDE
- Saunders \Saun"ders\, n. See Sandress. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'saunders'
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
Saunders -- U.S. County in Nebraska
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
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