Mahogany vs Kohekohe - What's the difference?
mahogany | kohekohe |
(countable) Any of various tropical American evergreen trees, of the genus Swietenia , having a valuable hard red-brown wood.
(uncountable) The wood of these trees, mostly used to make furniture.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=Foreword A reddish-brown color, like that of mahogany wood.
A table made from mahogany wood.
* 1842 , Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal
Dysoxylum spectabile , a medium-sized tree native to New Zealand, related to mahogany.
As nouns the difference between mahogany and kohekohe
is that mahogany is (countable) any of various tropical american evergreen trees, of the genus swietenia , having a valuable hard red-brown wood while kohekohe is dysoxylum spectabile , a medium-sized tree native to new zealand, related to mahogany.As an adjective mahogany
is made of mahogany.mahogany
English
(wikipedia mahogany)Noun
citation, passage=A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away, […].}}
- Poets eat and drink without stint — and seldom at their own cost — for what man of mark or likelihood in the moneyed world is there, who is not eager to get their legs under his mahogany ?