butternut squash

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butternut squash (countable and uncountable, plural butternut squashes)

  1. A vase-shaped orange-fleshed hard winter squash, a cultivar of Cucurbita moschata.
    Synonyms: (South Africa or informal) butternut, butternut pumpkin

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