Butternut

Butternut may refer to:

• Butternut, a type of walnut produced by the butternut tree (species Juglans cinerea)
• Butternut, a shade of yellow similar to khaki and the color of the butternut squash
• Butternuts, Confederate soldiers who wore butternut-colored uniforms
• Butternuts, Midwesterners of Southern descent in the antebellum United States; also sometimes used to refer to Northerners who supported the Southern cause during the Civil War, see Copperheads (politics)
• Butternut Bread, a regional brand marketed by Flowers Foods
• Butternut Candy, a defunct brand of chocolate candy bars with caramel and peanuts, made by Hollywood Candy Company
• Butternut Coffee, a brand originally produced by the Paxton and Gallagher Wholesale Grocery, and later Swanson
• Butternut doughnut, a flavor of doughnut
• Butternut squash, an edible winter squash
• Juglans cinerea, a species of walnut tree commonly called a butternut tree
• USS Butternut (YAG-60), a ship of the United States Navy

In geography

• Butternut, Wisconsin, USA
• Butternuts, New York, USA
• Butternut Lake (Meeker County, Minnesota)
• Butternut Valley Township, Blue Earth County, Minnesota, USA
• Butternut, Minnesota, USA
• Ski Butternut, a ski resort in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, USA
• Tennessee, the "Butternut State"