ximenia americana

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ximenia americana - 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