butternut squash
Americannoun
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a yellowish winter squash having sweet, orange-colored flesh.
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the plant bearing this fruit.
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This supplies the UK with 55 million cobs of corn each year, along with chillis, butternut squash, and also green beans.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026
All the other types get double names, like butternut squash or acorn squash, but not the yellow kind with the bulbous bodies and thin curving necks.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2025
You have your leading ladies, your butternut squash, carrots and then you have the character actor that you can't look away from.
From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2024
"We've hidden in there courgettes, butternut squash, onions and we've roasted it as well so they can have some on the side as well."
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2024
There is a butternut squash with two bites out of it scootching down the aisle of Health Goddess.
From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins
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