'Ximenia Americana' definitions:

Definition of 'Ximenia Americana'

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