different between backwood vs jackwood

English

back +? wood; compare backwater

backwood (not comparable)

Native to or located in a remote rural location.
- 1885, G. A. Henty, True to the Old Flag, chapter 1 — A Frontier Farm:
  The house itself, although far more spacious and comfortable than the majority of backwood farmhouses, was built in the usual fashion, of solid logs, and was evidently designed to resist attack.
- 2000, Helen Gibson, "Another Archer Mystery", Time, April 17:
  Despite the court victory, Archer resigned as deputy chairman and rehabilitated himself by working as a party stalwart in backwood constituencies.
Rustic, unsophisticated, countrified.

jack +? wood

jackwood (usually uncountable, plural jackwoods)

Cryptocarya glaucescens, a rainforest tree of eastern Australia whose bark is dark brown or reddish-brown and often scaly.

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