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butternuts

butternuts is the plural of butternut.

Meaning of butternut

Noun

butternut (countable and uncountable, plural butternuts)

  1. A North American walnut tree, Juglans cinerea.
    Synonyms:
    white walnut
  2. The wood or bark of this walnut tree.
  3. The nut of this walnut tree.
  4. A dye made from the fruit of this walnut tree.
  5. The souari nut.
  6. (informal outside South Africa) Butternut squash.
    • He made a delicious butternut soup.

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Noun capitalized: Butternuts

Butternuts

  1. (plural) plural of Butternut

Questions about butternuts

What is butternuts the plural of?
Butternuts is the plural of butternut.
What part of speech is butternuts?
Butternuts is a noun.

Words near butternuts in the dictionary

  1. butternut
  2. butternut pumpkin
  3. butternut pumpkins
  4. butternut squash
  5. butternut squashes
  6. butternuts
  7. butteroil
  8. butteroils
  9. butterpop
  10. butters
  11. butters down

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