英语词汇“red sandalwood”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Barbados or Barbadoes /bär-bāˈdōs, -dos or -dōz/

adjective

Of the West Indian island of Barbados

Barbāˈdian noun and adjective

Barbados cherry noun

The cherry-like fruit of West Indian trees of the genus Malpighia

Barbados earth noun

An earthy marl found in Barbados

Barbados gooseberry noun

The edible fruit of a West Indian climbing cactus (Pereskia aculeata)

Barbados leg noun

Elephantiasis

Barbados pride noun

A West Indian shrub, peacock-flower (Caesalpinia or Poinciana pulcherrima)
An Asiatic ornamental tree (Adenanthera pavonina) naturalized in the West Indies, also called red sandalwood

sandal² /sanˈdl/ or sandalwood /-wŭd/

noun

A compact and fine-grained very fragrant Indian wood
The parasitic tree yielding it, Santalum album (white sandalwood), or other species
Extended to other woods, such as red sanders and Barbados pride (genus Adenanthera), both called red sandalwood

ORIGIN: LL santalum, from Gr sandanon, from Sans candana, of Dravidian origin