AFRICAN SANDALWOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does African sandalwood mean? 

• AFRICAN SANDALWOOD (noun)
  The noun AFRICAN SANDALWOOD has 1 sense:

1. small shrubby African tree with hard wood used as a dyewood yielding a red dye

  Familiarity information: AFRICAN SANDALWOOD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AFRICAN SANDALWOOD (noun)

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Meaning:

Small shrubby African tree with hard wood used as a dyewood yielding a red dye

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

African sandalwood; Baphia nitida; camwood

Hypernyms ("African sandalwood" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Holonyms ("African sandalwood" is a member of...):

Baphia; genus Baphia (small genus of shrubs and lianas and trees of Africa and Madagascar)