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peanut
a. a leguminous plant, Arachis hypogaea, of tropical America: widely cultivated for its edible seeds. The seed pods are forced underground where they ripen.
b. the edible nutlike seed of this plant, used for food and as a source of oil
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peanut
[′pē·nət] (botany)
Arachis hypogaea. A low, branching, self-pollinated annual legume cultivated for its edible seed, which is a one-loculed legume formed beneath the soil in a pod.
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Europeans encountered peanuts growing in the Caribbean and South America when they explored the Western Hemisphere in the sixteenth century, but the
goober pea was apparently rare in Mexico.
Athens was the county seat of Limestone County, and
goober peas are what people who don't know any better call "peanuts." Mostly Yankees.
Peanuts, which are sometimes known as goobers or
goober peas, from the African word "nguba."
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