1. n., All Hawaiian kinds of sandalwood (Santalum 🌐 spp.), shrubs and trees, with fragrant heart wood, small pale-green or gray-green leaves, small, dull-red or greenish flowers, and small purple fruits. From about 1790 to 1830 sandalwood trees were cut and exported to China.
2. One whose clothes wear out fast, as due to carelessness.
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s. Sandal-wood; a deeply scented, hard wood, formerly a wood of traffic.
A sandalwood tree (Santalum freycinetianum). Its timber, known in commerce as yellow sandalwood, commands a high price now on account of its scarcity. Its wood is deeply scented, whence the name laau ala (scented wood).
Hill, Hanalei qd., Kauaʻi. Street, Nuʻu-anu, Honolulu; elementary school and playground, Wahi-a-wā, Oʻahu. Lit., sandalwood.
Sandalwood (Santalum spp.). A hard wood sent to China for temple incense. Hawaiians sometimes perfumed kapa by using sandalwood in either powder form or mixed with coconut oil. (NEAL 325.)
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