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RED SAUNDERS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does red saunders mean? 

RED SAUNDERS (noun)
  The noun RED SAUNDERS has 1 sense:

1. tree of India and East Indies yielding a hard fragrant timber prized for cabinetwork and dark red heartwood used as a dyewoodplay

  Familiarity information: RED SAUNDERS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


RED SAUNDERS (noun)


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Meaning:

Tree of India and East Indies yielding a hard fragrant timber prized for cabinetwork and dark red heartwood used as a dyewood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Pterocarpus santalinus; red sandalwood; red sanders; red sanderswood; red saunders

Hypernyms ("red saunders" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Meronyms (substance of "red saunders"):

red sandalwood; ruby wood (hard durable wood of red sandalwood trees (Pterocarpus santalinus); prized for cabinetwork)

Holonyms ("red saunders" is a member of...):

genus Pterocarpus; Pterocarpus (genus of tropical trees or climbers having usually broadly winged pods)


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