butternut tree

Questions about butternut tree

What is another word for butternut tree?

It depends which butternut tree you mean. In the sense “North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye”, the synonyms are butternut, white walnut, Juglans cinerea. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of butternut tree?

WordNet records no antonym for butternut tree. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for butternut tree come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

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• Full entry for butternut treeAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
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