Definition of Sandalwood family

1. Noun. Chiefly tropical herbs or shrubs or trees bearing nuts or one-seeded fruit.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Sandalwood Family

sand wedge
sand wedges
sand whiting
sandable
sandal
sandal foot
sandal strap dermatitis
sandaled
sandaliform
sandaling
sandalled
sandalling
sandalpunk
sandals
sandalwood
sandalwood family (current term)
sandalwood oil
sandalwood tree
sandalwoods
sandarac
sandarac tree
sandarach
sandaracs
sandbag
sandbagged
sandbagger
sandbaggers
sandbagging
sandbags

Literary usage of Sandalwood family

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"1810 sandalwood family. Herbs or shrubs (some exotic genera trees), with alternate or opposite entire exstipulate leaves. Flowers clustered or solitary, ..."

2. Southern Wild Flowers and Trees: Together with Shrubs, Vines and Various by Alice Lounsberry (1901)
"... at the direct instigation of the gods being believed to have first deposited its seeds on the branches of trees. THE sandalwood family. ..."

3. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"... sandalwood family. Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with entire leaves and a 4—5-cleft calyx valvate in the bud and its tube joined to the 1-cell e I ovary, ..."

4. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"1810 sandalwood family. Herbs or shrubs (some exotic genera trees), with alternate or opposite entire exstipulate leaves. Flowers clustered or solitary, ..."

5. Southern Wild Flowers and Trees: Together with Shrubs, Vines and Various by Alice Lounsberry (1901)
"... at the direct instigation of the gods being believed to have first deposited its seeds on the branches of trees. THE sandalwood family. ..."

6. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"... sandalwood family. Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with entire leaves and a 4—5-cleft calyx valvate in the bud and its tube joined to the 1-cell e I ovary, ..."

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