butternut squash

American  

noun

1. a yellowish winter squash having sweet, orange-colored flesh.

2. the plant bearing this fruit.

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Example Sentences

"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

One of Brandt’s favorite dishes currently flying is a Jain-style butternut squash carpaccio with Pav Bhaji masala orange segments, cilantro, a coconut-squash puree and toasted coconut flakes.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 28, 2023

Vegetable latkes can be made from chopped or shredded beets, zucchini, carrots, butternut squash or cauliflower.

From Washington Times • Dec. 4, 2023

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