| 单词 | red sandalwood |
| 释义 | > as lemmasred sandalwood red sandalwood n. (a) red sanders, the wood of the South Asian tree Pterocarpus santalinus (see red sanders n.); (also, in later use) the tree itself; (b) the red bead tree, Adenanthera pavonina, having extremely hard red heartwood; (also) the wood of this tree. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > woods of specific colour or dye-woods red sandalwood?c1510 redwooda1533 whitewood1562 red sanderswood1598 sapan wood1598 peach woodc1638 Campeachy wood1652 coral-wood1693 Nicaragua wood1696 cam-wood1699 Guinea wood1722 Nicaragua1756 barwood1788 ruby wood1843 sap pan1874 ?c1510 tr. Newe Landes & People founde by Kynge of Portyngale sig. Bi Whyte & red sandelen wodde. 1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 73 Red Sandall wood, fiftie Ducatts. 1783 A. Philips tr. Thousand & One Days III. 250/2 A dome of red sandal-wood, supported by six columns of China steel. 1846 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom 553 A deep red is yielded by the chips of Adenanthera pavonina, called in India Ruktachundun, or Red Sandal-wood. 1946 A. P. Benthall Trees of Calcutta 207 Adenanthera pavonina... Red sandalwood, bead tree... The heartwood is of a handsome red colour which turns purple on exposure. 2000 Field Crops Res. 65 186/1 Six species are listed as threatened..including P. santalinus the red sandalwood of India. red sandalwood white sandalwood is obtained from S. album, a tree resembling the myrtle, found on the Malabar coast. citron or yellow sandalwood is from S. Freycinetianum, found in the South Sea Islands. red sandalwood = red sanders n. (see also 2 below).extracted from sandalwoodn.adj.< as lemmas |
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