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SANDARAC TREE

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Meaning:

Large coniferous evergreen tree of North Africa and Spain having flattened branches and scalelike leaves yielding a hard fragrant wood; bark yields a resin used in varnishes

Synonyms:

Callitris quadrivalvis; sandarac; sandarac tree; Tetraclinis articulata

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("sandarac tree" is a kind of...):

cypress (wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus)

Meronyms (substance of "sandarac tree"):

sandarac; sandarach (a brittle and faintly aromatic translucent resin used in varnishes)

citronwood; sandarac (durable fragrant wood; used in building (as in the roof of the cathedral at Cordova, Spain))

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