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In the guest bedrooms, Tara has an antique cherry wood sugar chest, as well as a cherry pencil post bed, a mixed-stain cherry antique dresser, and an antique burl wood front washstand — all of which were inherited from her grandmother.
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Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 3 Nov. 2022
Xylitol – also known as wood sugar, birch sugar and birch bark extract – can be poisonous to dogs, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
—Nayeli Lomeli, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2021
Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 3 Nov. 2022
Xylitol – also known as wood sugar, birch sugar and birch bark extract – can be poisonous to dogs, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
—Nayeli Lomeli, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2021
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First Known Use
circa 1900, in the meaning defined above
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wood sugar
noun
: xylose
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