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Peanut   /pˈinət/  /pˈinˌət/   Listen
Peanut

noun
1.
Underground pod of the peanut vine.
2.
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.  Synonyms: Arachis hypogaea, peanut vine.
3.
A young child who is small for his age.
4.
Pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; 'groundnut' and 'monkey nut' are British terms.  Synonyms: earthnut, goober, goober pea, groundnut, monkey nut.
adjective
1.
Of little importance or influence or power; of minor status.  Synonym: insignificant.  "Peanut politicians"



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"Peanut" Quotes from Famous Books



... not rehearsing and they were free to amuse themselves, they prowled through the Chinese quarter, and through the Italian colony. They rode on windy "dummies" out to the beach, and went scattering peanut shells along the wet sands. They visited the Park, the Mint, and the big baths, or crossed to Oakland or Sausalito, where Martie learned to swim. Martie found Wallace tireless in his appetite for excursions, ...
— Martie the Unconquered • Kathleen Norris
... might win her for a bride; that if she would trust her future to his care the devotedness of his lifetime should be hers, and his only thought would be to make her life one long day of sunshine and peanut candy. ...
— Rolling Stones • O. Henry
... dolefully noted by one person in particular, to whom they meant more than to others in general. This was the good old Irishwoman who kept the apple and peanut stand at the street corner, and was the centre of attraction to the children on their way to ...
— Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir • Mary Catherine Crowley
... fear which you express in your beautifully-written letter, bearing the sign of the eleventh day of the seventh moon, as anything more than the imaginings prompted by a too-lavish supper of your favourite shark's fin and peanut oil. Unless the dexterously-elusive attributes of the genial-spoken persons high in office at Pekin have deteriorated contemptibly since this one's departure, it is quite impossible for our great and enlightened ...
— The Mirror of Kong Ho • Ernest Bramah
... without meat, nuts certainly offer the best substitute. There are preparations of nuts on the markets now, called nut-meats, but our advice would be, to eat all nuts without preparation, only being careful to masticate them thoroughly. The peanut is the first in rank for nutritive value, next comes the chestnut, and ...
— The Royal Road to Health • Chas. A. Tyrrell


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