What's the difference between bogwood and dogwood?

Bogwood


Definition:

  • (n.) The wood of trees, esp. of oaks, dug up from peat bogs. It is of a shining black or ebony color, and is largely used for making ornaments.

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Dogwood


Definition:

  • (n.) The Cornus, a genus of large shrubs or small trees, the wood of which is exceedingly hard, and serviceable for many purposes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Visitors who pass through MK as it was intended, by car, see no recognisable town at all: there’s a grid of broad roads and endless roundabouts, with houses and industrial estates hidden behind grassy banks and thickets of willow, pine and dogwood.
  • (2) In British Columbia, a green group called Dogwood Initiative, reported that material that it had obtained under the Access to Information law revealed that it had been under “illegal surveillance” by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).
  • (3) Photograph: Mark Makela for the Guardian ‘I’m not interested any more’ As the dogwoods and magnolias bloomed and lawnmowers came out across Northampton county, interviews with Trump voters did reveal some pockets of discontent with the president, especially among people who said they had backed him on an impulse, or who had expected him to do more, sooner.
  • (4) Filled with long-tailed tits or goldfinches or cackling green woodpeckers, many are as thick as houses, a coalition of holly, rowan, hazel, dogwood and bramble, with oaks permitted to grow into grand trees.
  • (5) Less surprisingly, this RNA transcript did not multiply in the presence of dogwood mosaic, strawberry latent ringspot, grapevine fanleaf or cherry leaf roll nepoviruses.
  • (6) Adebolajoalso figured in Operation Beech, Operation Cedar, Operation Dogwood and Operation Elm before the attack.

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