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butternut

• 1 n. the white walnut tree, Juglans cinerea, or its wood.

  • 1793  (1911)  I saw a very fine butternut tree.
  • 1815  The timber consists of beech, elm, butternut. . . .
  • 1962  . . . I saw [a yellow warbler] while lying on my back looking up into the leaves of the butternut. . . .

• 2 n. the fruit of this tree.

  • 1829  A very rich and durable brown [is] afforded by the outer husk of the butternut.
  • 1952  [He remembered] the flat black butternuts. . . .

• 3 n. a brown dyestuff made from the butternut.

  See also: butternut (def. 2)  butternut (-colo(u)red)  

  • 1903  ". . . them frum th' Tenth Concession . . . come in flannel frocks . . . dyed in butternut. . . ."
  • 1905  For brown, butternut was used. . . .