butternut
noun
the edible oily nut of an American tree, Juglans cinerea, of the walnut family.
butternuts
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pluralof butternut.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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 Margaret Fuller
There was a lawn and gardens, a watch-house and stables, and a stately row of butternuts.
From The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day by Ralph Delahaye Paine
