sandalwood

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This occurs at an age of twenty years at most The soil of India supports many kinds of useful trees--sandalwood, which is employed in the construction of the finer kinds of furniture; ebony, with its dark wood; the teak-tree, which grows to a height of 130 feet, and forms immense forests in both the Indian peninsulas and in the Sunda Islands.

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  1. noun Any of several tropical Asian trees of the genus Santalum, especially S. album, having aromatic yellowish heartwood used in cabinetmaking and wood carving and yielding an oil used in perfumery.
  2. noun Any of several tropical Asian trees of the genera Adenanthera, Myroporum, and Pterocarpus.
  3. noun The wood of any of these trees.
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  • He’s making 45 molecules, and he’s looking for a sandalwood, something that smells of sandalwood. —  Luca Turin on the science of scent
  • He worked over toward the central part of the enormous castle and eventually entered a chamber in which the odor of sandalwood was almost overpoweringly strong. —  023 - The Mystic Mullah
  • Australian sandalwood, guaiac wood, vetiver and white musk strike the perfect final note. —  Romantic Travel News
  • Base notes of white moss, sandalwood, cedarwood, vetiver and labdanum linger in a woman's memory. —  Romantic Travel News
  • Chesapeake Bay Candle sent me their latest fragrance sphere, a minimalist ceramic globe that flavors your air with cedar, sandalwood, and fig. I tucked it into the the corner of my powder room - the scent is subtle, and the fragrance sphere is less obvious than a spindly reed diffuser … —  KRiSTOPHER DUKES.com
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/ˈsændəlwəd/
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