Definition of "butternuts" [butternuts]

• Plural form of butternut. (noun)

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• "- Gen. Charles Walsh, and others, and a large number of "butternuts," who had been the subject of discussion at the Sunday night meeting, and these prisoners were safely lodged in Camp Douglas."
• "English walnuts, filberts, pecans and chestnuts, along with hardier types such as butternuts, black walnuts, hicans, hickories and hazels."
• "a tree nearby and "every one" of which was bearing "butternuts," as he and his neighbors call them."