Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun butternut

2 senses of butternut

Sense 1
butternut, butternut tree, white walnut, Juglans cinerea -- (North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye)
       => walnut, walnut tree -- (any of various trees of the genus Juglans)

Sense 2
butternut -- (oily egg-shaped nut of an American tree of the walnut family)
       => edible nut -- (a hard-shelled seed consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell)