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Red sandalwood

noun
1.
Hard durable wood of red sandalwood trees (Pterocarpus santalinus); prized for cabinetwork.  Synonym: ruby wood.
2.
Tree of India and East Indies yielding a hard fragrant timber prized for cabinetwork and dark red heartwood used as a dyewood.  Synonyms: Pterocarpus santalinus, red sanders, red sanderswood, red saunders.
3.
East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers; cultivated as an ornamental.  Synonyms: Adenanthera pavonina, Barbados pride, coral-wood, coralwood, peacock flower fence.





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... hands, put together in the form of the red lotus; the mass of rays coloured by the red sandalwood body of the thousand-eyed elephant of the eastern quarter having a thousand flames, the witness of things (which ought) to be done and not to be done, the unique sea-monster leaping over the row of cloud-waves of the celestial ...
— Hindoo Tales - Or, The Adventures of Ten Princes • Translated by P. W. Jacob


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