groundnut.
A climbing vine, Apios americana, of eastern North America, having fragrant brownish flowers and small edible tubers.
Meaning & usage
A climbing vine, Apios americana, of eastern North America, having fragrant brownish flowers and small edible tubers.
Any similar plant having underground tubers.
The nutlike tuber of such a plant, especially peanuts.
A plant which bears its nutlike seeds underground, such as a peanut (Arachis hypogaea) or a Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea).
Where this word comes from
From ground + nut. Compare Icelandic jarðhneta, German Erdnuss (both cognate with earthnut) and Hungarian földimogyoró.
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