butternut

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye
noun oily egg-shaped nut of an American tree of the walnut family

From butter + nut.

A small man in butternut and an enormous felt hat passed near. — The Rock of Chickamauga: A Story of the Western Crisis, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
She told him to make himself a hammock of rags and leaves, in the butternut tree. — Woodland Tales, Ernest Thompson Seton
The one who first reached the old butternut tree with a hickory nut would be declared the winner. — Old Mother West Wind, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

butternut tree, white walnut, Juglans cinerea

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