sandalwood

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Any of several tropical Asian semiparasitic trees of the genus Santalum, especially S. album, having aromatic yellowish heartwood used in cabinetmaking and wood carving and yielding an oil used in perfumery.
• noun Any of several other tropical Asian trees, especially those of the genera Adenanthera and Pterocarpus that yield a hard wood and a red dye.
• noun The wood of any of these trees.
• noun A light to moderate or grayish brown.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun In Australia, a small tree, Mida persicaria.
• noun The fragrant wood of the heart and roots of a tree of several species belonging to the genus Santalum; also, the tree itself.
• noun Another East Indian tree, Adenanthera pavonina, with red wood, used as a dyestuff and otherwise. See Adenanthera.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The highly perfumed yellowish heartwood of an East Indian and Polynesian tree (Santalum album), and of several other trees of the same genus, as the Hawaiian Santalum Freycinetianum and S. pyrularium, the Australian S. latifolium, etc. The name is extended to several other kinds of fragrant wood.
• noun Any tree of the genus Santalum, or a tree which yields sandalwood.
• noun The red wood of a kind of buckthorn, used in Russia for dyeing leather (Rhamnus Dahuricus).
• noun the fragrant wood of several trees not of the genus Santalum, as Ximenia Americana, Myoporum tenuifolium of Tahiti.
• noun a heavy, dark red dyewood, being the heartwood of two leguminous trees of India (Pterocarpus santalinus, and Adenanthera pavonina); -- called also red sanderswood, sanders or saunders, and rubywood.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum, native to India, Australia, Hawaii, and many south Pacific islands.
• noun The aromatic heartwood of these trees used in ornamental carving, in the construction of insect-repellent boxes and chests, and as a source of certain perfumes.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun close-grained fragrant yellowish heartwood of the true sandalwood; has insect repelling properties and is used for carving and cabinetwork