An eastern North American walnut (Juglans cinerea) having light-brown wood, pinnately compound leaves, and a deeply furrowed nut enclosed in an egg-shaped, sticky, aromatic husk.
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The nut of this tree, having an edible sweet kernel.
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The wood of this tree, used for furniture, boxes, and interior finishes.
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The bark of this tree.
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A brownish dye obtained from the husks of the fruits of this tree.
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Clothing dyed with butternut extract, especially the uniforms of Confederate soldiers in the Civil War.
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A Confederate soldier or partisan in the Civil War.
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The white walnut tree (Juglans cinerea) of E North America, with compound leaves and hard-shell nuts.
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Its wood, often used in place of the heavier black walnut.
(US, obsolete) A ConfederateSoutherner, or somebody who supported southern rights and slavery [19th c.]
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Origin of butternut
After the color of the Confederate uniform.
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Among deciduous trees the state is noted for its sugar maples; birch and beech are common on the hills, and oaks, elm, hickory, ash, poplar, basswood, willow, chestnut and butternut on the less elevated areas.
Beech, black walnut, butternut, chestnut, catalpa, hemlock and tamarack trees are also common.
The white walnut or butternut, J.
The former forests of the state were of two general classes: on the bottom lands along the rivers grew cottonwood, willow, honey-locust, coffee trees, black ash, and elm; on the less heavily wooded uplands were oaks (white, red, yellow and bur), hickory (bitternut and pignut), white and green ash, butternut, ironwood and hackberry.
The butternut, hickory and chestnut are common nut-bearing trees in the S.