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butteris |
butterman |
buttermilk |
buttermilk biscuit |
buttermilk pancake |
butternut
| butternut squash
| butternut tree
| butterscotch
| butterweed
| butterweight
butternut
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun butternut has 2 senses
- butternut(n = noun.plant) butternut tree, juglans cinerea, white walnut - North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye; Array has parts: butternut
- butternut(n = noun.food) Array - oily egg-shaped nut of an American tree of the walnut family; Array is a kind of edible nut
is a member of genus juglans, juglans
is a kind of walnut, walnut tree
is a part of butternut, butternut tree, juglans cinerea, white walnut
CIDE DICTIONARY
butternut, n.
- An American tree (
Juglans cinerea ) of the Walnut family, and its edible fruit; -- so called from the oil contained in the latter. Sometimes calledoil nut andwhite walnut . [1913 Webster] - The nut of the
Caryocar butyrosum andCaryocar nuciferum , of S. America; -- called alsoSouari nut . [1913 Webster]
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