adenanthera pavonina

3 definitions found

adenanthera pavonina - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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 Santalum pyrularium, the Australian
         Santalum 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).
         [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
        [1913 Webster] Sandarach

  coralwood \coralwood\ n.
     an East Indian tree (Adenanthera pavonina) with racemes of
     yellow-white flowers; cultivated as an ornamental.
  
     Syn: red sandalwood, Barbados pride, peacock flower fence,
          Adenanthera pavonina.
          [WordNet 1.5]

adenanthera pavonina - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Adenanthera pavonina
      n 1: East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers;
           cultivated as an ornamental [syn: coralwood, coral- wood
           , red sandalwood, Barbados pride, peacock flower fence
           , Adenanthera pavonina]