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false sandalwood

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.71 in modern English

Syllables
false san-dal-wood
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Myoporum sandwicense, a flowering tree or shrub in the figwort family endemic to Hawai'i, highly variable in its form, the size and shape of its leaves, in the number of flowers in a group and in the shape of its fruit.

Etymology

From its resemblance to sandalwood.

Inflected Forms

false sandalwoods (plural)

Synonyms

bastard sandalwood naio

Questions

What does false sandalwood mean?
Myoporum sandwicense, a flowering tree or shrub in the figwort family endemic to Hawai'i, highly variable in its form, the size and shape of its leaves, in the number of flowers in a group and in the shape of its fruit.
Where does false sandalwood come from?
From its resemblance to sandalwood.

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