butternut

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

the white walnut tree, Juglans cinerea, or its wood.

Quotations

1793

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. . . .

2n.

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. . . .

3n.

a brown dyestuff made from the butternut.

1903

". . . them frum th' Tenth Concession . . . come in flannel frocks . . . dyed in butternut. . . ."

1905

For brown, butternut was used. . . .