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zitan

zitan noun: wood of a red sandalwood tree (Pterocarpus santalinus).

Noun

zitan (uncountable)

  1. Wood of a red sandalwood tree (Pterocarpus santalinus).

Origin of zitan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 紫檀 (zǐtán).

Questions about zitan

What does zitan mean?
Zitan means wood of a red sandalwood tree (Pterocarpus santalinus).
What part of speech is zitan?
Zitan is a noun.

Words near zitan in the dictionary

  1. zisha
  2. Zisis
  3. Ziskind
  4. Zissis
  5. zit
  6. zitan
  7. zitch
  8. zitcom
  9. zitcoms
  10. zite
  11. zitface

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