santal (uncountable)
(organic compound) A colourless crystalline substance, isomeric with piperonal, but having weak acid properties. It is extracted from sandalwood.
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Santal (plural Santals or Santal)
A member of an aboriginal ethnic group living in what is now the eastern states of India, and Bangladesh and Nepal. They are a Munda people speaking the Santali language.
Santal (not comparable)
Of or pertaining to the Santals.
• alants, aslant, natals
Source: Wiktionary
San"tal, n. Etym: [Santalum + piperonal.] (Chem.)
Definition: A colorless crystalline substance, isomeric with piperonal, but having weak acid properties. It is extracted from sandalwood.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
29 March 2025
(adjective) without care or thought for others; “the thoughtless saying of a great princess on being informed that the people had no bread; ‘Let them eat cake’”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
