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PTEROCARPUS SANTALINUS

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

Pterocarpus santalinus; red sandalwood; red sanders; red sanderswood; red saunders

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Pterocarpus santalinus" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Meronyms (substance of "Pterocarpus santalinus"):

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

Holonyms ("Pterocarpus santalinus" is a member of...):

genus Pterocarpus; Pterocarpus (genus of tropical trees or climbers having usually broadly winged pods)

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