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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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