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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
sandarac is a noun meaning "durable fragrant wood; used in building (as in the roof of the cathedral at Cordova, Spain)". It carries 3 recorded senses.
durable fragrant wood; used in building (as in the roof of the cathedral at Cordova, Spain)
a brittle and faintly aromatic translucent resin used in varnishes
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
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sandarac come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.