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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

I think that most all boys and girls like to eat hickory nuts and butternuts, and chestnuts and filberts, and indeed all kinds of nuts.

From With the Children on Sunday Through Eye-Gate and Ear-Gate into the City of Child-Soul by Stall, Sylvanus

Not an hour later, two men, in big boots, slouched hats, and brownish butternuts, come out of the Commandant's quarters.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 by Various