peanut in English dictionary

  • peanut

    Meanings and definitions of "peanut"

    • A legume resembling a nut, the fruit of the plant Arachis hypogaea.
    • noun
      A legume resembling a nut, the fruit of the plant Arachis hypogaea.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To pull on somebody's tie as a prank, causing the knot to tighten.
    • a legume resembling a nut
    • A nutlike fruit from the plant Arachis hypogaea that grows on long stems under ground.
    • A plant native to America which produces an edible fruit.
    • adjective
      of little importance or influence or power; of minor status; "a minor, insignificant bureaucrat"; "peanut politicians"
    • noun
      a young child who is small for his age
    • noun
      pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms
    • noun
      underground pod of the peanut vine
    • noun
      widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions; showy yellow flowers on stalks that bend over to the soil so that seed pods ripen underground

    Synonyms of "peanut" in English dictionary

    goober pea, nipper, insignificant are the top synonyms of "peanut" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of peanut

    • lp  liczba pojedyncza peanut, lm  liczba mnoga peanuts
    • peanuts peanut ( plural  peanuts)
    • peanut (plural peanuts)
    • peanut (third-person singular simple present peanuts, present participle peanutting, simple past and past participle peanutted)
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