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earthnut

[urth-nuht]

noun

any of various roots, tubers, or underground growths, as the peanut and the truffle.

any of the plants producing these.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English erthenote, Old English eorthnutu. See earth, nut

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a fool or simpleton; ninny.

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earthnut (ˈɜːθˌnʌt)

—n
1.	Also called: pignut a perennial umbelliferous plant, Conopodium majus, of Europe and Asia, having edible dark brown tubers
2.	any of various plants having an edible root, tuber, underground pod, or similar part, such as the peanut or truffle

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