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Butternut tree

noun

North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye. Synonyms: butternut, Juglans cinerea, white walnut.

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... coming into bearing. At one end of it there is an old black walnut tree, and the young Persians that were planted near this tree began to bear first. Near the center of this eight-acre orchard we planted a butternut tree. This will, I think, help to fertilize the pistillate or nutlet blossoms ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting - Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913 • Various

Words linked to "Butternut tree" : Juglans cinerea, walnut, Juglans, genus Juglans, walnut tree