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SANDAL-WOOD

\sˈandə͡lwˈʊd], \sˈandə‍lwˈʊd], \s_ˈa_n_d_əl_w_ˈʊ_d]\

Definitions of SANDAL-WOOD

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language

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Wood of Santalum album; white sandal-wood : its oil is used like copaiba.
The wood of Pterocarpus santalinus; red saunders.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

n. [Arabic] The wood of a low tree, having a general resemblance to the privet or primâ€”when old it has a yellow colour and great fragrance.

1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language

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