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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“I remember going to one party with a lot of CEOs and big, big, big business guys and, the hostess was serving a butternut squash soup,” Stewart recounted.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2025
The stolen items, which included steak and ale pies, turkey and cranberry pies and butternut squash pies, would have been enough to stock Tommy's Pie Shop for a week, according to the chef.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 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
In fact, the taste was described as “almost sweet,” akin to a butternut squash mac and cheese and not the Kraft Original.
From Salon ● Mar. 30, 2024
Facing the sharp edge without ever touching it, she took whole vegetables between her hands and hacked them apart: cauliflower, cabbage, butternut squash.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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