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saunders |
2 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]: Saunders \Saun"ders\, n. See {Sandress}.
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