Usually means: Fragrant wood used in perfumery.
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  1. sandalwood: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sandalwood: Merriam-Webster
  3. sandalwood: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sandalwood: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sandalwood: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sandalwood: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sandalwood, sandalwood: Wordnik
  8. sandalwood: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Sandalwood, sandalwood: Wiktionary
  10. sandalwood: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sandalwood: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sandalwood: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sandalwood: Dictionary.com
  14. sandalwood: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Sandalwood (cinema), Sandalwood (disambiguation), Sandalwood: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sandalwood: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sandalwood: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sandalwood: Rhymezone
  19. Sandalwood: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. Sandalwood: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. sandalwood: FreeDictionary.org
  22. sandalwood: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sandalwood: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sandalwood: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sandalwood: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  Any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum, native or long naturalized in India, Australia, Hawaii, and many south Pacific islands.
▸ noun:  The aromatic heartwood of these trees used in ornamental carving, in the construction of insect-repellent boxes and chests, and as a source of certain perfumes.
▸ noun:  (informal) The Kannada film industry located in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

Similar:
santalwood, sandal, Indian sandalwood, santalum, santol, quandong, sandalwort, sandal-wood, iliahi, sanders, more...

Opposite:
odorless, fragrance-free, non-aromatic.

Phrases:
Sandalwood oil, red sandalwood, sandalwood tree, white sandalwood, Indian sandalwood, more...

Adjectives:
red, white, fragrant, powdered, yellow, indian, hawaiian, precious, scented, more, true

Colors:
    beige,     tan,     taupe,     cream,     ivory, more...
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Similar:
santalwood, sandal, Indian sandalwood, santalum, santol, quandong, sandalwort, sandal-wood, iliahi, sanders, more...

Opposite:
odorless, fragrance-free, non-aromatic.

Phrases:
Sandalwood oil, red sandalwood, sandalwood tree, white sandalwood, Indian sandalwood, sandalwood island, sandalwood oils, sandalwood family, african sandalwood, true sandalwood, false sandalwood, more...

Adjectives:
red, white, fragrant, powdered, yellow, indian, hawaiian, precious, scented, more, true

Colors:
    beige,     tan,     taupe,     cream,     ivory, more...



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