sandalwood
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1. sandalwood - Noun
2. Sandalwood - Proper noun
Meaning
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 S. pyrularium, the Australian S. latifolium, etc. The name is extended to several other kinds of fragrant wood.
Any tree of the genus Santalum, or a tree which yields sandalwood.
The red wood of a kind of buckthorn, used in Russia for dyeing leather (Rhamnus Dahuricus).
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Contacts became more frequent after 1840, because of the interest in sandalwood from New Caledonia.
It was a source of exotic finery and soulful treasures like gold, peacocks, jewels, frankincense and precious sandalwood.
No one wants to self-isolate for no reason, so perhaps lighting a candle and hoping for a reassuring gush of lavender or sandalwood is the solution favoured by those too proud to push out a fart.
On Friday, the Central Crime Branch in Bengaluru nabbed Prateek Shetty in connection to the Sandalwood drug scandal.
Some timber harvesting is undertaken, producing eucalyptus, sandalwood, teak, bamboo and rosewood.
The much-loved Sandalwood superstar Ambareesh has been heralded as part of the 'triumvirate' in the industry, the other two being Rajkumar and Vishnuvardhan.