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Definition of Earthnuts
1. earthnut [n] - See also: earthnut
Lexicographical Neighbors of Earthnuts
Literary usage of Earthnuts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gazetteer of Upper Burma and the Shan States by James George Scott, John Percy Hardiman (1901)
"In the belt lying above the paddy-land and under the hills bounding the valley
earthnuts are the principal crop. The highest yield in good years is a ..."
2. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1903)
"The production of earthnuts in 1900 was 140000 tons. Coconuts, kola, rubber,
gums, and castor-oil are ... Earthnuts, gums, and rubber are the chief exports. ..."
3. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"Earthnuts, which form at present the principal export of Senegal, ... Earthnuts form
over one-half of the exports, and gum and rubber over one-tenth. ..."
4. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1858)
"... Earthnuts." The latter appellation seems to indicate in what estimation the
plant was then held ; it was regarded as a mere curiosity, with a " tuberous ..."
5. Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency by Bombay (India : Presidency), Bombay (India : State), Bombay (Presidency), India (1885)
"The Vanis and Telia buy from the growers for cash and send to Chiplun raw sugar
or gul, turmeric, chillies, earthnuts, tobacco, and oil, and in exchange ..."
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