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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sandalwood \San"dal*wood\, n. [F. sandal, santal, fr Ar [,c]andal, or Gr sa`ntalon; both ultimately fr Skr. candana. Cf {Sanders}.] (Bot.) a 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. b Any tree of the genus {Santalum}, or a tree which yields sandalwood. c The red wood of a kind of buckthorn, used in Russia for dyeing leather ({Rhamnus Dahuricus}). {False sandalwood}, the fragrant wood of several trees not of the genus {Santalum}, as {Ximenia Americana}, {Myoporum tenuifolium} of Tahiti. {Red sandalwood}, a heavy, dark red dyewood, being the heartwood of two leguminous trees of India ({Pterocarpus santalinus}, and {Adenanthera pavonina}); -- called also {red sanderswood}, {sanders} or {saunders}, and {rubywood}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sanders \San"ders\, n. [See {Sandal}.] An old name of sandalwood, now applied only to the red sandalwood. See under {Sandalwood}. From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Sanders, KY (city, FIPS 68358) Location: 38.65465 N, 84.94676 W Population (1990): 231 (73 housing units) Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 41083
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