butternut squash

Questions about butternut squash

What does butternut squash mean?

butternut squash means "plant bearing buff-colored squash having somewhat bottle-shaped fruit with fine-textured edible flesh and a smooth thin rind". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for butternut squash?

Close synonyms include Cucurbita maxima. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is butternut squash a common word?

butternut squash is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.