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
It would be just like mother, wouldn't it, to come back if it was anyways convenient, and see to them butternuts?
From The Wooing of Calvin Parks by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
They have very little possibility of growing very much except the butternuts, and sometimes hybrid filberts.
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
