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groundnut
[ ground-nuht ]
noun
- Also called wild bean, potato bean. a twining, North American plant, Apios americana (or A. tuberosa ), of the legume family, having clusters of fragrant brownish flowers and an edible tuber.
- any of several other plants having edible underground parts, as the peanut.
- South Atlantic States. peanut.
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Example Sentences
“When I was growing groundnuts, I used to sell it to the local markets,” Ramesh says.
“I lost a lot of money growing groundnuts through chemical farming methods,” says Ramesh, who goes by the first letter of his father’s name followed by his first name, as is common in many parts of southern India.
There he grows maize and groundnuts to feed himself, his wife, and their three children.
It is rich in the oil palm and oil-bearing groundnut, but the climate is exceedingly dangerous to Europeans.
This plant has a peculiar habit of thrusting its pods into the ground for the nuts to ripen; hence the name groundnut.
You will doubtless be surprised to learn that the groundnut is really only a species of the familiar peanut.
My present dietary consists of plantain, groundnut and olive oil, with some sour fruit like the lime.
The Peanut or Groundnut is the seed of an annual, cultivated extensively in most tropical and sub-tropical countries.
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