sandalwood

Any of several tropical Asian semiparasitic trees of the genus Santalum, especially S. album, having aromatic yellowish heartwood used in cabinetmaking and wood carving and yielding an oil used in perfumery.

Any of several other tropical Asian trees, especially those of the genera Adenanthera and Pterocarpus that yield a hard wood and a red dye.

The wood of any of these trees.

A light to moderate or grayish brown.

In Australia, a small tree, Mida persicaria.

The fragrant wood of the heart and roots of a tree of several species belonging to the genus Santalum; also, the tree itself.

Another East Indian tree, Adenanthera pavonina, with red wood, used as a dyestuff and otherwise. See Adenanthera.

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.