RED SANDALWOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does red sandalwood mean? 

• RED SANDALWOOD (noun)
  The noun RED SANDALWOOD has 3 senses:

1. hard durable wood of red sandalwood trees (Pterocarpus santalinus); prized for cabinetwork

2. tree of India and East Indies yielding a hard fragrant timber prized for cabinetwork and dark red heartwood used as a dyewood

3. East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers; cultivated as an ornamental

  Familiarity information: RED SANDALWOOD used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RED SANDALWOOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hard durable wood of red sandalwood trees (Pterocarpus santalinus); prized for cabinetwork

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

red sandalwood; ruby wood

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

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Holonyms ("red sandalwood" is a substance of...):

Pterocarpus santalinus; red sandalwood; red sanders; red sanderswood; red saunders (tree of India and East Indies yielding a hard fragrant timber prized for cabinetwork and dark red heartwood used as a dyewood)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Tree of India and East Indies yielding a hard fragrant timber prized for cabinetwork and dark red heartwood used as a dyewood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Pterocarpus santalinus; red sandalwood; red sanders; red sanderswood; red saunders

Hypernyms ("red 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)

Meronyms (substance of "red sandalwood"):

red sandalwood; ruby wood (hard durable wood of red sandalwood trees (Pterocarpus santalinus); prized for cabinetwork)

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

genus Pterocarpus; Pterocarpus (genus of tropical trees or climbers having usually broadly winged pods)

Sense 3

Meaning:

East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers; cultivated as an ornamental

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Adenanthera pavonina; Barbados pride; coral-wood; coralwood; peacock flower fence; red sandalwood

Hypernyms ("red 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 ("red sandalwood" is a member of...):

Adenanthera; genus Adenanthera (small genus of trees of tropical Asia and Pacific areas)