NOUN
- 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
- East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers; cultivated as an ornamental
How To Use red sandalwood In A Sentence
- The sacred sandalwood tree is featured in this Ragamalas painting.
- An S-shaped chopsticks rack made from red sandalwood is a symbol of good luck.
- Selected red sandalwood, pear, red wood and other valuable timber as raw materials, with rich experience in court Artisan furniture making, using hand crafted traditional techniques .
- Red sandalwood trees, although scattered throughout southern China, are native to India and some Southeast Asian countries.
- Most furniture was made out of hardwood, for example, red sandalwood or walnut.
- Travancore tortoise, the Indian egg-eating snake, the medicinal tree Purakayastha native to Shillong, the Yakla snow lotus, the Siroi lily - said to be the most beautiful of all lilies, crinum lily, the gamble tree native to Kerala with only 200 trees left in the sacred grove of Aickad, and the red sandalwood tree are endangered or critically endangered. The Times of India
- To be free of outward distraction, he shut his eyes and concentrated upon the scraps she had given him; and shortly, with his eyes still closed, he began to describe Ruth's island: the mountain at one end, with the ever-recurring scarves of mist drifting across the lava-scarred face; the jungle at the foot of it; the dazzling border of white sand; the sprawling store of the trader and the rotting wharf, sundrily patched with drift-wood; the native huts on the sandy floor of the palm groves; the scattered sandalwood and ebony; the screaming parakeets in the plantains; the fishing proas; the mission with its white washed walls and barren frontage; the lagoon, fringed with coco palms, now ruffled emerald, now placid sapphire. The Ragged Edge