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Definition of Groundnut

1. Noun. A North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans.

2. Noun. Nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans.

3. Noun. Pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; 'groundnut' and 'monkey nut' are British terms.

Definition of Groundnut

1. n. The fruit of the Arachis hypogæa (native country uncertain); the peanut; the earthnut.

Definition of Groundnut

1. Noun. A climbing vine, ''Apios americana'', of eastern North America, having fragrant brownish flowers and small edible tubers. ¹

2. Noun. Any similar plant having underground tubers. ¹

3. Noun. The nutlike tuber of such a plant; a peanut or monkey nut. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Groundnut

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Medical Definition of Groundnut

1. The fruit of the Arachis hypogaea (native country uncertain); the peanut; the earthnut. A leguminous, twining plant (Apios tuberosa), producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste. The dwarf ginseng (Aralia trifolia). A European plant of the genus Bunium (B. Flexuosum) having an edible root of a globular shape aud sweet, aromatic taste. Synonym: earthnut, earth chestnut, hawknut, and pignut. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Groundnut

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Literary usage of Groundnut

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Land and Labour in a Deccan Village by Harold Hart Mann, Dattatraya Lakshman Sahasrabuddhe, Narayan Vinayak Kanitkar, Vinayak Atmaram Tamhane (1917)
"L.—groundnut. Considered in point of area, groundnut is a very minor crop but it is ... At the present time no country groundnut is grown at all; ..."

2. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"groundnut. WILD BEAN Calyx somewhat 2-lipped, the 2 lateral teeth being nearly obsolete, the upper very short, the lower one longest. ..."

3. Records of the colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in New England by Rhode Island, John Russell Bartlett (1859)
"Jonathan Clarke, Robert Taylor, Charles Tillinghast, Abraham Anthony, Jr., all of Newport, admitted freemen of the colony. John groundnut, of Kingstown, ..."

4. The Effects of Trade and Exchange Rate Policies on Agriculture in Zaire by Tshikala B. Tshibaka (1986)
"Significant at the 5 percent level. groundnut output with respect to the maize price is -0.294, suggesting that there is a conflict in production between ..."

5. Indigenous Knowledge and Its Uses in SA by Hans Normann (1996)
"from Asia via America, groundnut, and the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L) from South America. More specifically, cowpea is being replaced by soybean, ..."

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