Butternut meaning

bŭt'ər-nŭt'
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.
noun
1
0
The nut of this tree, having an edible sweet kernel.
noun
0
0
The wood of this tree, used for furniture, boxes, and interior finishes.
noun
0
0
The bark of this tree.
noun
0
0
A brownish dye obtained from the husks of the fruits of this tree.
noun
0
0
Advertisement
Clothing dyed with butternut extract, especially the uniforms of Confederate soldiers in the Civil War.
noun
0
0
A Confederate soldier or partisan in the Civil War.
noun
0
0
The white walnut tree (Juglans cinerea) of E North America, with compound leaves and hard-shell nuts.
noun
0
0
Its wood, often used in place of the heavier black walnut.
noun
0
0
A soldier or supporter of the Confederacy.
noun
0
0
Advertisement
Its oily edible nut.
noun
0
0
The souari nut.
noun
0
0
A North American walnut tree, Juglans cinerea.
noun
0
0
The wood or bark of this walnut tree.
noun
0
0
The nut of this walnut tree.
noun
0
0
Advertisement
A dye made from the fruit of this walnut tree.
noun
0
0
(informal) Butternut squash.

He made a delicious butternut soup.

noun
0
0
(US, obsolete) A Confederate Southerner, or somebody who supported southern rights and slavery [19th c.]
noun
0
0

Origin of butternut

After the color of the Confederate uniform.

Sentence Examples

  • 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.

More sentences →

Words near butternut in the Dictionary