(n.) 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.
(n.) Any tree of the genus Santalum, or a tree which yields sandalwood.
(n.) The red wood of a kind of buckthorn, used in Russia for dyeing leather (Rhamnus Dahuricus).
Example Sentences:
(1) A fast method for such comparisons, based on volume matching followed by the estimation of comparable surface dots, is presented and applied on a few selected sandalwood odour molecules.
(2) The Roldugin-Sandalwood schemes were organised by the Swiss lawyers Dietrich, Baumgartner & Partner , whose offices are in the heart of Zurich’s banking district.
(3) Further loans made to media production and TV companies were reassigned to Sandalwood.
(4) Between 2009 and 2011 it extended $800m in credit lines to Sandalwood Continental.
(5) But the Panama Papers showed $2bn flowing from Russian state banks to offshore companies linked to Roldugin, including a firm in the British Virgin Islands called Sandalwood Continental Ltd.
(6) In December 2010, the RCB lent 5bn roubles (then about £100m) offshore to Sandalwood at 4% interest.
(7) They have largely meaningless names – Sonnette Overseas, International Media Overseas, Sunbarn, Raytar, Sandalwood Continental Ltd .
(8) Sandalwood promptly passed it on to another offshore entity with obscure ownership, Eurofert Trading Ltd, as a loan at 5%.
(9) Goldblatt said that the author's satirical novel Jiuguo (The Republic of Wine) "may be the most technically innovative and sophisticated novel from China I've read", while his Shengsi pilao (Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out) is "a brilliant extended fable", and Tanxiangxing (Sandalwood Death) "is, as the author contends, musical in its beauty".
(10) As soon as the cash came in from RCB, Sandalwood lent it on to a Cyprus-registered entity, Horwich Trading, at a hefty 7.8% interest.
(11) In one example from July 2010, Sandalwood agreed to buy shares through Starcourt Worldwide Ltd, an offshore company based in Belize.
(12) The cash came from Sandalwood, the offshore company linked to Putin’s other close friend, Roldugin.
(13) He had practiced the incense ceremony for about 15 years, and had burnt several incenses and sandalwood.
(14) The files show how the simple movement of the money made Sandalwood a profit of $4m.
(15) It then paid Sandalwood nearly $800,000 in “compensation”.
(16) The GC-fingerprint spectra of essential oils in imported sandalwood are established by the new technique of GC-relative retention value fingerprint spectrum (GC-FPS).
(17) The vast trade in shark fins and turtles will also come under attack, as will the large-scale felling of tropical rosewood and sandalwood, as well as less well-known issues such as Indonesia's huge exports of frogs' legs, and the trade in cheetahs and python skins.
Santalic
Definition:
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, sandalwood (Santalum); -- used specifically to designate an acid obtained as a resinous or red crystalline dyestuff, which is called also santalin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Genetic distance estimates by both dendrogram and principal component methods for these 5 populations and the Oraons on the basis of 19 alleles at 6 polymorphic loci indicate 2 major clusters: Brahmins and Muslims, the latter of which is composed of two subclusters (Santals and Bhuiyas, and Oraons and Chamars).
(2) Four-hundred fifty-nine people, including 106 Santals, 43 Bhuiyas, 107 Sakaldipi Brahmins, 108 Chamars, and 95 Ansari Muslims, of the Giridhi district of Bihar have been tested for transferrin, group-specific component, phosphoglucomutase subtypes, and glyoxalase-I, 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase, and adenylate kinase types.
(3) Similar amounts of leafy vegetables (5.1% in Santals and 4.8 to 6.8% among the Pahariyas) was consumed by these tribes.
(4) Only about 12.6 per cent of the Pahariyas and 28.2 per cent Santals could afford regular meals every day for the whole year.
(5) The Santal and Bhuiya tribes both speak Mundari, whereas the Oraons speak a Dravidian language.
(6) Mean body weight, height, chest circumference, arm circumference and skinfold thickness etc., of the Pahariyas were significantly lower than those of the Santals.
(7) Slightly, higher quantity of non-leafy vegetables was consumed by the Santals (4.4%) than the Pahariyas (2.3% to 3.6%).
(8) A dietary survey was conducted between August 1986 and July 1987, to investigate the various food ingredients consumed by two tribes (the Santals and the Pahariyas) residing in the villages of Rajmahal hills, of Bihar.