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Definition of Arachis
1. Noun. A genus of plants with pods that ripen underground (see peanut).
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Fabaceae, Family Fabaceae, Family Leguminosae, Legume Family, Leguminosae, Pea Family
Member holonyms: Arachis Hypogaea, Peanut, Peanut Vine
Definition of Arachis
1. any plant of the pea family [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Arachis
Literary usage of Arachis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"The cultivation of the arachis plant dates back so tar in history that its ...
The approximate composition of arachis nut, taking the average of nuts from ..."
2. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"As the iodine value of arachis oil lies so near that of olive oil, , adulteration
of olive oil with arachis oil takes place on the largest scale ; indeed, ..."
3. Foods: Their Composition and Analysis: A Manual for the Use of Analytical by Alexander Wynter Blyth (1896)
"De Negri and Fabris have examined different mixtures of olive and arachis oils,
and have obtained the following results (the arachis oil used containing ..."
4. Lubrication and Lubricants: A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of by Leonard Archbutt, Richard Mountford Deeley (1907)
"Q.—DETECTION AND DETERMINATION OF arachis Oil IN OLIVE OIL. arachis or earthnut
oil so nearly resembles olive oil in genei characters that the ordinary ..."
5. Methods of Organic Analysis by Henry Clapp Sherman (1905)
"arachis oil has usually a higher specific gravity and iodine number and practically
... The specific temperature reaction of arachis oil with concentrated ..."
6. Methods of Organic Analysis by Henry Clapp Sherman (1905)
"arachis oil has usually a higher specific gravity and iodine number and practically
... The specific temperature reaction of arachis oil with concentrated ..."
7. Treatise on Applied Analytical Chemistry by Vittorio Villavecchia (1918)
"These oils are fairly numerous but only relatively few are in common use, these
including olive, almond, arachis, colza, cottonseed, linseed, ..."
8. Pharmacographia; a History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin, Met by Friedrich August Flückiger, Daniel Hanburgy (1879)
"OLEUM arachis. Ground-nut oil, Earth-nut oil, Pea-nut oil, ... arachis is one of
the most universally cultivated plants throughout Tropical Africa, ..."
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