Home › Words › B › butternutbutternutbutternut · noun — A North American walnut tree, Juglans cinerea.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).EtymologyFrom butter + nut.nounA North American walnut tree, Juglans cinerea.The wood or bark of this walnut tree.The nut of this walnut tree.A dye made from the fruit of this walnut tree.The souari nut.Butternut squash.e.g.“He made a delicious butternut soup.”Southern settlers of the Ohio river basin, who used dye from the butternut tree to colour their home-made clothinge.g.“Yankees took to calling the Borderlanders “butternuts”—a reference to the color of their crude homespun clothes.” — 2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 17, in American nations, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:A Confederate Southerner, or somebody who supported southern rights and slaverye.g.“The Illinois troops delivered a volley that sent the butternuts scampering back across the field.” — 1958, Shelby Foote, The Civil War: A Narrative. Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville.:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.buckskins 52% match — trousers and other clothing made from buckskin vs butternut →buckskinned 50% match — Wearing clothes made from buckskin. vs butternut →butyrellite 50% match — bog butter vs butternut →bitternut 50% match — The bitternut hickory, Carya cordiformis, a common hickory tree native to the eastern United States and southeast Canada. vs butternut →yernut 50% match — The earthnut or hawknut, Bunium bulbocastanum. vs butternut →woollybutt 50% match — Any of several types of eucalyptus that have a woolly or stringy bark vs butternut →quercitron 50% match — A yellow dye obtained from the bark of the black oak. vs butternut →bannut 49% match — An English walnut. vs butternut →