Butternut: alternatives and connections

Asian tree having clusters of usually white blossoms and edible fruit resembling the peach

African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread

A tree of the Orange family (Citrus bergamia), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of deli…

The Platanus occidentalis, or American plane tree, a large tree, producing rough balls, from which it is named; -- called also buttonb…

A tree (Anacardium occidentale) of the same family which the sumac. It is native in tropical America, but is now naturalized in all tr…

A genus of American and East Indian trees, of which the best know species are the Catalpa bignonioides, a large, ornamental North Amer…

A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become o…

A tropical tree, or its fruit, of the genus Psidium. Two varieties are well known, the P. pyriferum, or white guava, and P. pomiferum,…

Any wading bird of the genus Ardea and allied genera, of the family Ardeidae. The herons have a long, sharp bill, and long legs and to…

An extractive matter contained in the juice of the green shucks of the walnut (Juglans regia). It is used medicinally as an alterative…

An alkaloid found in the leaves of the walnut (Juglans regia).

A genus of valuable trees, including the true walnut of Europe, and the America black walnut, and butternut.

A yellow crystalline substance resembling quinone, extracted from green shucks of the walnut (Juglans regia); -- called also nucin.

any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit

the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone; "black walnut kernels are difficult to get out of the shel…

A small European bird of the Plover family (Vanellus cristatus, or V. vanellus). It has long and broad wings, and is noted for its rap…

An oval or roundish fruit resembling the orange, and containing a pulp usually intensely acid. It is produced by a tropical tree of th…

A large North American tree of the genus Robinia (R. Pseudacacia), producing large slender racemes of white, fragrant, papilionaceous…