Definitions for sandalwood

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sandalwood san·dal·wood

Spelling: [san-dl-woo d]

IPA: /ˈsæn dlˌwʊd/

Sandalwood is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 299 anagrams from letters in sandalwood (aaddlnoosw).

Definitions for sandalwood

noun

1. the fragrant heartwood of any of certain Asian trees of the genus Santalum, used for ornamental carving and burned as incense.
2. any of these trees, especially S. album (white sandalwood) an evergreen of India, having ovate leaves and yellowish flowers that turn red.
3. any of various related or similar trees or their woods, especially an East Indian tree, Pterocarpus santalinus (red sandalwood) of the legume family, or its heavy dark-red wood that yields a dye.

Origin of sandalwood

First recorded in 1505-15; sandal² + wood¹

Examples for sandalwood

Some of the rods had handles of sandalwood, and were genuine curios in carvings.

Now, you see the track going through that clump of sandalwood?

The air was heavy with sandalwood, and attar of rose, and incense.

Besides ponies, almost the only exports of Timor are sandalwood and beeswax.

In the air there was a faint odor of skins, dried herbs, sandalwood, and camphor.

The sandalwood traders, after stern experiences, had given it up.

Many of them liked the fragrance of sandalwood and strange perfumes.

sandalwood, which is more of a bush than a tree, runs small as a rule.

Banquet tables were bedecked with orchids, candles, and sandalwood fans to prevent sweating in eveningwear.

With a start Kent noticed that it was made of East Indian sandalwood.