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Definition of Santoor
1. Noun. An Indian string instrument, a trapezoidal hammered dulcimer with seventy strings, believed to be derived from the Persian santur. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Santoor
1. santir [n -S] - See also: santir
Lexicographical Neighbors of Santoor
Literary usage of Santoor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Joseph Paxton (1849)
"Cuttings of the young wood taken off at a joint, and planted in pots of sand
under a hand-glass in a brisk, moist heat, will grow freely. THE santoor SANDAL ..."
2. Hand-book of Indian Flora: Being a Guide to All the Flowering Plants by Herber Drury (1864)
"From santoor, the Malay name of the tree. GEN. CHAR. Calyx obtusely 5-lobed:
petals 5, distinct: sla- men-tube cylindrical, ..."
3. Records of Travel (1838)
"... light occasionally seen on the spars or rigging of a ship at sea, distinguished
by various names — as St. Elmo's fire, corpo santoor sacred body, &c. ..."
4. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Joseph Paxton (1849)
"Cuttings of the young wood taken off at a joint, and planted in pots of sand
under a hand-glass in a brisk, moist heat, will grow freely. THE santoor SANDAL ..."
5. Hand-book of Indian Flora: Being a Guide to All the Flowering Plants by Herber Drury (1864)
"From santoor, the Malay name of the tree. GEN. CHAR. Calyx obtusely 5-lobed:
petals 5, distinct: sla- men-tube cylindrical, ..."
6. Records of Travel (1838)
"... light occasionally seen on the spars or rigging of a ship at sea, distinguished
by various names — as St. Elmo's fire, corpo santoor sacred body, &c. ..."
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