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

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

“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

She leans on what she knows and plays up those flavors: the koji-marinated tomato in the oyster dish, the acid from the oranges in the butternut squash carpaccio.

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