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Definition of Butternut squash
1. Noun. Plant bearing buff-colored squash having somewhat bottle-shaped fruit with fine-textured edible flesh and a smooth thin rind.
2. Noun. Buff-colored squash with a long usually straight neck and sweet orange flesh.
Definition of Butternut squash
1. Noun. ''Curcurbita moschata'': a vase-shaped orange-fleshed hard winter squash. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Literary usage of Butternut squash
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Home Plate: The Traveler's Food Guide to Cooperstown and Otsego County, NY by Brenda Berstler (2006)
"It's a marvelous use of New York State's bumper crop of butternut squash.
Fresh pasta sheets for making ravioli (homemade, or purchased in larger markets) 1 ..."
2. The Bahamas: A Taste of the Islands by Paris Permenter, John Bigley (2000)
"... substitute acorn, Hubbard, or butternut squash. Callaloo. This leafy vegetable
resembles spinach and is used similarly. Don't miss the callaloo soup, ..."
3. 57 Ways to Protect Your Home Environment (& Yourself) by Rick Weinzierl (1999)
"butternut squash is more resistant to the squash vine borer than are either acorn
squash or Blue Hubbard squash. And among summer squash, zucchini is the ..."
4. Eating Hints for Cancer Patients: Before, During and After Treatmentedited by Barry Leonard edited by Barry Leonard (1999)
"Combine with cooked vegetables, such as carrots, sweet potatoes, yams, and acorn
and butternut squash. ..."
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