red sandalwood

Questions about red sandalwood

What does red sandalwood mean?

red sandalwood means "hard durable wood of red sandalwood trees (Pterocarpus santalinus); prized for cabinetwork". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for red sandalwood?

Close synonyms include ruby wood, red sanders, red sanderswood, red saunders, Pterocarpus santalinus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is red sandalwood a common word?

red sandalwood is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.