winter squash vs butternut squash

winter squash and butternut squash both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
winter squash	Yes	No	No	No
butternut squash	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, butternut squash is a hyponym of winter squash; that is, butternut squash is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than winter squash:

winter squash: any of various fruits of the gourd family with thick rinds and edible yellow to orange flesh that mature in the fall and can be stored for several months
butternut squash: buff-colored squash with a long usually straight neck and sweet orange flesh

Other hyponyms of winter squash include acorn squash, hubbard squash, turban squash, cushaw, winter crookneck squash.

As nouns, butternut squash is a hyponym of winter squash; that is, butternut squash is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than winter squash:

winter squash: any of various plants of the species Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata producing squashes that have hard rinds and mature in the fall
butternut squash: plant bearing buff-colored squash having somewhat bottle-shaped fruit with fine-textured edible flesh and a smooth thin rind

Other hyponyms of winter squash include acorn squash, Cucurbita maxima, hubbard squash, Cucurbita maxima turbaniformis, turban squash, Cucurbita maxima, Cucurbita moschata, winter crookneck, winter crookneck squash, Cucurbita argyrosperma, Cucurbita mixta, cushaw.

winter squash (noun)	butternut squash (noun)
any of various fruits of the gourd family with thick rinds and edible yellow to orange flesh that mature in the fall and can be stored for several months	buff-colored squash with a long usually straight neck and sweet orange flesh
any of various plants of the species Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata producing squashes that have hard rinds and mature in the fall	plant bearing buff-colored squash having somewhat bottle-shaped fruit with fine-textured edible flesh and a smooth thin rind

winter squash vs butternut squash

winter squash and butternut squash both are nouns.

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