peanut
Noun · AdjectiveUS[pee-nuht]/ˈpinət/2 syllablesalso [pee-nuht] /ˈpiˌnʌt/
Open English WordNet
Noun (4)peanuts
- underground pod of the peanut vineType of pod, seedpodPart of peanut vine, Arachis hypogaeaMade of peanut oil, groundnut oil
- 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 undergroundSynonyms: peanut vineArachis hypogaeaType of legume, leguminous plantParts earthnutMember of Arachis, genus Arachis
- a young child who is small for their ageType of child, kid
- pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; ‘groundnut’ and ‘monkey nut’ are British termsSynonyms: earthnutgoobergoober peagroundnutmonkey nutType of edible nutPart of peanut vine, Arachis hypogaea
Adjective (1)
- of little importance or influence or power; of minor status“a minor, insignificant bureaucrat”“peanut politicians”Synonyms: insignificantOpposite majorSimilar minor
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Translations
Noun a legume resembling a nut
- Spanish
- maní
- French
- cacahuète
- German
- Erdnuss
- Italian
- arachide
- Portuguese
- amendoim
- Turkish
- yer fıstığı
- Russian
- ара́хис aráxis
- Arabic
- فُول سُودَانِيّ fūl sūdāniyy
- Chinese
- 花生 huāshēng
- Japanese
- ピーナツ pīnatsu
32 more languages
- Dutch
- pinda
- Polish
- orzeszek ziemny
- Swedish
- jordnöt
- Greek
- φυστίκι fystíki
- Korean
- 땅콩 ttangkong
- Indonesian
- kacang tanah
- Vietnamese
- đậu phộng
- Hungarian
- földimogyoró
- Portuguese (PT)
- amendoim
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 花生 huāshēng
- Albanian
- kikirik
- Catalan
- cacauet
- Czech
- arašíd
- Danish
- jordnød
- Esperanto
- arakido
- Estonian
- maapähkel
- Finnish
- maapähkinä
- Georgian
- არაქისი arakisi
- Hebrew
- בוֹטֵן boten
- Icelandic
- jarðhneta
- Latvian
- zemesrieksts
- Lithuanian
- žemės riešutas
- Malagasy
- voanjo
- Norwegian
- peanøtt
- Romanian
- arahidă
- Scottish Gaelic
- cnò-thalmhainn
- Serbo-Croatian
- kikiriki
- Slovak
- arašid
- Slovenian
- arašid
- Swahili
- karanga
- Welsh
- cneuen ddaear
- Yiddish
- פֿיסטאַשקע fistashke
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Pea′nut (pē′nŭt), noun
Botany The fruit of a trailing leguminous plant (Arachis hypogæa); also, the plant itself, which is widely cultivated for its fruit.
☞ The fruit is a hard pod, usually containing two or three seeds, sometimes but one, which ripen beneath the soil. Called also earthnut, groundnut, and goober.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54