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butternut
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Word definitions for butternut in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also butter-nut , 1753, nut of the white walnut, a North American tree; transferred to the tree itself from 1783. The nut's color was a brownish-gray, hence the word was used (1861) to describe the warm gray color of the Southern army uniforms in the American ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye [syn: butternut tree , white walnut , Juglans cinerea ] oily egg-shaped nut of an American tree of the walnut family
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A North American walnut tree, ''Juglans cinerea''. 2 The wood or bark of this walnut tree. 3 The nut of this walnut tree. 4 A dye made from the fruit of this walnut tree. 5 (context informal English) butternut squash#English.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Souari nut \Sou*a"ri nut`\ (Bot.) The large edible nutlike seed of a tall tropical American tree ( Caryocar nuciferum ) of the same natural order with the tea plant; -- also called butternut . [Written also sawarra nut .]
Usage examples of butternut.
Eating great food, tropical shrimp ceviche, rare ahi tuna, butternut squash enchiladas.
Soldiers in butternut, white and col ored, kept fighting till the barrels and the U.
Citrus and pumpkinseed seared antelope with Virginia ham and butternut squash succotash.
Littlepage: That the association request the Secretary of Agriculture to include in his estimates of appropriations for the next fiscal year a sum sufficient, in his judgment, to enable the department to carry on a continuous survey of nut culture, including the investigation and study of nut trees throughout the northern states, such nut trees including all the native varieties of nuts, hickories, walnuts, butternuts and any sub-divisions of those varieties, and that a committee of three be appointed to interview the secretary personally to have this amount included in the appropriation.
Now we go into line just as we raise the hill, and as my four comes around, I catch a hurried glimpse through a rift in the smoke of a line of butternut and gray clad men a hundred yards or so away.
Here and there are men in butternut clothing, prone on the frozen ground, wounded and dying.
What was our astonishment, about three weeks later, to see Tom, fat and healthy, and dressed in a full suit of butternut, come stalking into the pen.
At length we saw a young man--apparently a scout--on horseback, but his clothes were equally divided between the blue and the butternut, as to give no clue to which side he belonged.
Blooey was trying to save his butternut squash from the predicted freeze that evening.
There were several men dressed in butternut clothes hanging about the hotel, and Frank determined to enter into conversation with one of them, and, if possible, learn something about Abbott.
A beautiful grove of butternut trees was pointed out to us, as the spot where the chiefs of the six nations used to hold their senate.
She swept off her hat, dropping it on the table, and rumpled the thickness of her butternut hair.
Longarm had changed into denim pants and a butternut shirt with a dark brown vest over it.
The men were dressed in raggedy furs, buckskin, and homespun in shades of butternut and brown.
She'd filled a square no bigger than her palm with an intricate zigzag design in rust-red and butternut yellow.