Dictionary Entry
sandalwood
sandalwood is a 10-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 17 · 4 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
Any tree of the genus Santalum, or a tree which yields sandalwood.
- 3noun
The red wood of a kind of buckthorn, used in Russia for dyeing leather (Rhamnus Dahuricus).
- 4noun
close-grained fragrant yellowish heartwood of the true sandalwood; has insect repelling properties and is used for carving and cabinetwork
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