sandalwood family

1. 1.

   chiefly tropical herbs or shrubs or trees bearing nuts or one-seeded fruit

   SynonymsSantalaceaefamily Santalaceae

   Broaderdilleniid dicot family

   Part ofSantalales

Questions about sandalwood family

What does sandalwood family mean?

sandalwood family means "chiefly tropical herbs or shrubs or trees bearing nuts or one-seeded fruit".

What is another word for sandalwood family?

Close synonyms include Santalaceae, family Santalaceae. 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 sandalwood family a common word?

sandalwood family is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.