The Collaborative International Dictionary
Butternut \But"ter*nut`\, n.
(Bot.) An American tree ( Juglans cinerea) of the Walnut family, and its edible fruit; -- so called from the oil contained in the latter. Sometimes called oil nut and white walnut.
(Bot.) The nut of the Caryocar butyrosum and Caryocar nuciferum, of S. America; -- called also Souari nut.
WordNet
n. North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye [syn: butternut, butternut tree, Juglans cinerea]
Usage examples of "white walnut".
Once upon a time it must have been a beautiful slab of white walnut, before they’.
Once upon a time it must have been a beautiful slab of white walnut, before they'd varnished it into such a florid atrocity.
Unfortunately the wood of the white walnut could not be had, so I had chosen cedar instead.
He made a bargain that season with Nancy Miller, to split four hundred rails for every yard of brown jeans, dyed with white walnut bark, that would be necessary to make him a pair of trousers.