WordNet
butternut tree
n. North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye [syn: butternut, white walnut, Juglans cinerea]
Usage examples of "butternut tree".
There were at least a score of them screeching and careening against each other, disappearing and reappearing magically in the humid air beneath the butternut tree.
Not far ahead he could see a man sitting against the bole of a butternut tree, his horse grazing at the roadside.
But he remembered the time he had climbed a butternut tree to fetch some butter, and a lobster had nipped him.