butternut tree

Questions about butternut tree

What does butternut tree mean?

butternut tree means "North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye".

What is another word for butternut tree?

Close synonyms include butternut, white walnut, Juglans cinerea. 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 tree a common word?

butternut tree 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.