red sandalwood: tree of India and East Indies yielding a hard fragrant timber prized for cabinetwork and dark red heartwood used as a dyewood
entity: that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)
states' rights democratic party: a former political party in the United States; formed in 1948 by Democrats from southern states in order to oppose to the candidacy of Harry S Truman