Peanut
['piːnʌt] or ['pinʌt]
Definition
(noun.) pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms.
(noun.) a young child who is small for his age.
(noun.) widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions; showy yellow flowers on stalks that bend over to the soil so that seed pods ripen underground.
(noun.) underground pod of the peanut vine.
Checker: Marsha--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The fruit of a trailing leguminous plant (Arachis hypogaea); also, the plant itself, which is widely cultivated for its fruit.
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Examples
- The peanut, for example, contains 43% of fat, 30% of proteids, and only 17% of carbohydrates; the Brazil nut has 65% of fat, 17% of proteids, and only 9% of carbohydrates. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Most of our fats, like lard and butter, are of animal origin; some of them, however, like olive oil, peanut butter, and coconut oil, are of plant origin. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- They also yield an oil which is often used for olive oil, and very good peanut butter is now made by grinding them up and mixing them with oil. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The peanut plant, or groundnut as it is also called, has a hairy stem and the leaves usually grow in sets of two pairs each, on the extreme end of each little branch-stem. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- After the peanuts have reached their full growth, they are dug up very much in the same way as potatoes, a machine potato digger now being extensively used for this purpose. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- We would simply suggest that the practice of vulgar young boys in the gallery of shying peanuts and paper pellets at the tigers, and saying Hi-yi! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Peanuts are really the seeds or pods of a plant belonging to the family called the earthnut in Great Britain, the nuts there being used chiefly to fatten swine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- How do Peanuts Get in the Ground? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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