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
Wealthy keeps her pickles here," she said, "and she lets me take one now and then, because I helped to prick the butternuts when she made 'em.
From Eyebright A Story by Susan Coolidge
I feel it is so bad on Japanese walnuts and butternuts that they shouldn't be propagated in the area.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950 by Northern Nut Growers Association
