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Beige-skinned and oblong, they look more like bloated butternuts than anything you’d carve to make a jack-o’-lantern.

From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2021

He’s also a sometime farmer whose butternuts have won first place so often at the Washington County Fair that no one else bothers to enter anymore.

From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2011

"We know this because of the butternuts," she says.

From Time Magazine Archive

"But," rejoined the other, "many butternuts are beneath the sod, and you cannot help a mixture of them being in your wood, at any rate."

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret

The wagon bottom was filled with walnuts and butternuts.

From Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail by Chapman, Allen