資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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}.

資料來源 : WordNet®

red sandalwood
     n 1: hard durable wood of red sandalwood trees (Pterocarpus
          santalinus); prized for cabinetwork [syn: {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 [syn: {red sanders}, {red sanderswood}, {red
        saunders}, {Pterocarpus santalinus}]
     3: East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers;
        cultivated as an ornamental [syn: {coralwood}, {coral-wood},
         {Barbados pride}, {peacock flower fence}, {Adenanthera
        pavonina}]