peanut

A prostrate southern Brazilian plant (Arachis hypogaea) widely cultivated in tropical and warm temperate regions, having yellow flowers on stalks that bend over so that the seed pods ripen underground.

The edible, nutlike, oily seed of this plant, used for food and as a source of oil.

A peanut-shaped piece of polystyrene, used in cushioning items during shipment.

A small child. Often used as a term of affection.

A person who is regarded as insignificant.

A very small amount of money; a trifling sum.

One of the edible fruits of Arachis hypogæn.

The plant that bears these fruits, better known in England as groundnut. See Arachis. Also called ground-pea, earthnut, Manila nut, jur-nut, goober, and pindar.

The fruit of a trailing leguminous plant (Arachis hypogæa); also, the plant itself, which is widely cultivated for its fruit.