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- noun Plural form of
butternut .
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Examples
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English walnuts, filberts, pecans and chestnuts, along with hardier types such as butternuts, black walnuts, hicans, hickories and hazels.
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- Gen. Charles Walsh, and others, and a large number of "butternuts," who had been the subject of discussion at the Sunday night meeting, and these prisoners were safely lodged in Camp Douglas.
The Great North-Western Conspiracy in All Its Startling Details I. Windslow Ayer
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a tree nearby and "every one" of which was bearing "butternuts," as he and his neighbors call them.
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Corn; basil and coriander; mustard leaves; mottled green, purple and red peppers; hot chillis; yellow and green courgettes; gem squash and butternuts; French beans; tomatoes: and aubergines, strangely bulbous, purplish hewed, firm.
The Garden Game 2009
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Corn; basil and coriander; mustard leaves; mottled green, purple and red peppers; hot chillis; yellow and green courgettes; gem squash and butternuts; French beans; tomatoes: and aubergines, strangely bulbous, purplish hewed, firm.
The Garden Game 2009
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The Vikings apparently used the site as a base camp from which to explore to the south; butternuts found at the site grew no closer than the St. Lawrence River valley.
The Ancient Mariners 2008
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Big crop of butternuts and shagbark hickory nuts, as well.
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Other vegetable sources are spinach, mustard greens, walnuts and walnut oil, wheat germ oil, rapeseed oil, (most rapeseed, better known as canola, is GMO contaminated, the same is true with non-organic soy products) butternuts and seaweed.
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Tables near the taxi rank are full of bananas, avocados, onions, tomatoes, cabbage heads (about twice the size of my head), and butternuts (squash), grown locally, and sold for pretty awesome prices.
Archive 2007-10-01 Megan aka Mmapula Reamogetse 2007
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Tables near the taxi rank are full of bananas, avocados, onions, tomatoes, cabbage heads (about twice the size of my head), and butternuts (squash), grown locally, and sold for pretty awesome prices.
Clarity...maybe Megan aka Mmapula Reamogetse 2007
Gammerstang commented on the word butternuts
(pl. noun) - (1) A term applied during the Civil War to Southern country people from their home-spun clothing.
--Gilbert Tucker's American English, 1921
(2) Derived from the colour of the uniforms worn in the early part of the war by Confederate soldiers in the West, which, being homespun, were dyed brown with the juice of the butternut (Juglans cinerea).
--John Farmer's Slang and Its Analogues, 1890
January 16, 2018