butternut squash
A vase-shaped orange-fleshed hard winter squash, a cultivar of Cucurbita moschataA vase-shaped orange-fleshed hard winter squash, a cultivar of Cucurbita moschata.
» Before it's cooked, butternut squash smells like melon.
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1 senses(countable, uncountable)A vase-shaped orange-fleshed hard winter squash, a cultivar of Cucurbita moschata.
Butternutkürbis, Butternusskürbis
тыква мускатнаяtykva muskatnaja
- buff-colored squash with a long usually straight neck and sweet orange flesh
- plant bearing buff-colored squash having somewhat bottle-shaped fruit with fine-textured edible flesh and a smooth thin rind
Examples
5 sentencesBefore it's cooked, butternut squash smells like melon.
Cut the butternut squash into one-inch cubes.
The butternut squash was to die for!
I like to add roasted butternut squash to Benedito's salad for some extra sweetness.
Butternut squash is a good source of manganese, potassium, and vitamins A, C, and E.
Translations
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Forms
plural: butternut squashes| Singular | butternut squash |
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Synonyms
3 synonyms- plant bearing buff-colored squash having somewhat bottle-shaped fruit with fine-textured edible flesh and a smooth thin rind:Cucurbita maxima
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.