Butternut is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BUTTERNUT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the oily nut of the North American white walnut; the tree itself
• a North American walnut tree which is cultivated as an ornamental and also for its quality timber.
• the edible oily nut of the butternut.
• E North American walnut tree
• 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.
• The nut of the Caryocar butyrosum and C. nuciferum, of S. America; -- called also Souari nut.
• North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye
• oily egg-shaped nut of an American tree of the walnut family
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an eastern North American tree (Juglans cinerea) of the walnut family with sweet egg-shaped nuts and light brown wood —called also white walnut

Words related to BUTTERNUT

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Words that contain BUTTERNUT

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How to use BUTTERNUT in a sentence

• He owned a beautiful modern vessel made of basswood, butternut, and pine, with rigging all of steel, and a runner-plank as springy as an umbrella frame.
• The tulip tree and butternut were noticed along the banks.
• The bark of the butternut is light gray while that of the black walnut is dark.
• The buds in the butternut are longer than those of the black walnut and are light brown instead of gray in color.
• The fruit in the butternut is elongated while that of the black walnut is round.
• The leaves of the butternut have fewer leaflets and these are lighter in color.
• They were clad in the butternut gray and the slouch hats of the Confederacy, but their ordinary attire was the blue uniform of the Union army.
• The hickory, the pecan, the butternut, the filbert and the pinon are all capable of producing equal or greater results.
• Cracking the native butternut and marketing the kernels affords the rural people in many sections a fairly profitable means of employment during the winter months.
• During the month of August clusters of blackish caterpillars bearing white hairs, may be seen stripping the terminal branches of black walnut, butternut and hickory trees.
• It also occasionally attacks black walnut, butternut, mulberry and osage orange.
• Our butternut, too, cannot be omitted, for there are few better flavored nuts than the butternut.
• At my early home in Massachusetts one huge butternut stood in the yard.
• Although the tree has many characteristics of the butternut the foliage is much more luxuriant and it is an admirable tree for planting in the open lawn.
• These trees to be banked with the smaller trees of the butternut and English walnut.
• By hardwood timber is meant such trees as maple, beech, birch, oak, elm, basswood, butternut and walnut.
• Six years ago I started a small black walnut and butternut tree nursery for home use and from it have set out about four hundred trees along the ditches and fences on the farm.
• The butternut in many parts of the country is rapidly disappearing.
• The flavor of the kernel is much like that of the American butternut.
• The Aiken butternut 200kg cracking pressure is the thinnest shelled pure butternut yet found.
• As to roadside planting in New England it would not make much difference whether it was a walnut or butternut or pecan.
• In Michigan the only ones we are considering are the black walnut, the hickory, the butternut and the beech.
• Basswood or butternut, or even pine, will do as well as the more expensive woods.
• Currant and quince bushes, rhubarb, mulberry, maple, and butternut trees were scattered about.
• Grey, of all shades, from light blue to butter-nut, was the universal colour.
• He looked long and well and then began to edge quietly toward the singer, who was clothed in the faded butternut uniform that so many of the Confederate soldiers wore.
• The women wore linsey-woolsey gowns, of home manufacture, and dyed according to the taste or skill of the wearer in stripes and bars with the brown juice of the butternut.
• Whitney speaks of the region as abounding in oak of various kinds, chestnut, white ash, beech, birch, and maple, with some butternut and walnut trees.

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