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Butternut n.

(Bot.) 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.

(Bot.) The nut of the Caryocar butyrosum and Caryocar nuciferum, of S. America; called also Souari nut.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Butternut" Quotes from Famous Books

... the blossoms, ready to break out in beauty when the warm days come and flood the world with color. Men try to photograph nature, but no photograph could do justice to the clustered buds of the red maple or the downy buds of the slippery elm. The long green gray buds of the butternut, pistillate flowers in some, staminate flowers in others; the saffron buds of the butternut hickory; the ruby buds of the bass wood; the varnished bud scales of the sycamore and the poplar; the big gummy scales which protect the pussy catkins of the aspen; the queer little buds of the sumac and ...

— Some Winter Days in Iowa • Frederick John Lazell

... made of the dyes employed, those of vegetable origin ruling, and only those dyes which from experience have been found to be practically fast are used,—such for instance as genuine old Indigo blue, madder root, and butternut. ...

— Rugs: Oriental and Occidental, Antique & Modern - A Handbook for Ready Reference • Rosa Belle Holt

... office door opened, ushering in a stout man with a red face, accompanied by an elderly white-haired gentleman, in a butternut suit. The red-faced man was carrying a carpet bag—not the Northern variety of wagon-curtain canvas, but the old-fashioned carpet kind with leather handles and a mouth like a catfish. The snuff-colored gentleman's only charge was a heavy hickory cane and ...

— Colonel Carter of Cartersville • F. Hopkinson Smith

... Blue Flag twenty drops, Fluid Extract Culiver's Root twenty drops, Fluid Extract Poke Root twenty drops, Fluid Extract Butternut twenty drops, Fluid Extract Dandelion twenty drops, Fluid Extract Prince Pine ten drops, Fluid Extract Mandrake five drops, Fluid Extract Gentian five drops, Fluid Extract Calcium five drops, Fluid Extract Black ...

— One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed • C. A. Bogardus

... bright-eyed Almira, "there's that old butternut-tree that you shinned up one day when we set the hounds on ...

— A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories • Bret Harte

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