| santal | <chemistry> A colourless crystalline substance, isomeric with piperonal, but having weak acid properties. It is extracted from sandalwood. Origin: Santalum + piperonal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| santal oil | A volatile oil distilled from the wood of Santalum album (family Santalaceae), a tree of India; formerly used in subacute bronchitis and in gonorrhoea. Synonym: sandalwood oil. (05 Mar 2000) |
| santalaceous | <botany> Of which the genus Santalum is the type, and which includes the buffalo nut and a few other North American plants, and many peculiar plants of the southern hemisphere. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| santalic | <chemistry> Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, sandalwood (Santalum); used specifically to designate an acid obtained as a resinous or red crystalline dyestuff, which is Synonym: santalin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| santalin | <chemistry> Santalic acid. See Santalic. Origin: Cf. F. Santaline. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| santalum | <botany> A genus of trees with entire opposite leaves and small apetalous flowers. There are less than a dozen species, occuring from India to Australia and the Pacific Islands. See Sandalwood. Origin: NL. See Sandalwood. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |