red sandalwood

Noun

• East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers; cultivated as an ornamental

• tree of India and East Indies yielding a hard fragrant timber prized for cabinetwork and dark red heartwood used as a dyewood

• hard durable wood of red sandalwood trees (Pterocarpus santalinus); prized for cabinetwork

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  coralwood , coral-wood , Barbados pride , peacock flower fence , Adenanthera pavonina , red sanders , red sanderswood , red saunders , Pterocarpus santalinus , ruby wood