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A North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers
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groundnut
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Groundnut may refer to: Seeds that ripen underground, of the following plants, all in the Faboideae subfamily of the legumes : Arachis villosulicarpa Bambara groundnut Hausa groundnut ( Macrotyloma geocarpum ) Peanut Roots and tubers: Apios americana Conopodium ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Her people are farmers growing just enough food for themselves and a little rice and groundnuts as cash crops. ▪ In the surrounding fields, men and women harvest maize, sorghum and groundnuts. ▪ It has relied on groundnut oil ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans [syn: groundnut vine , Indian potato , potato bean , wild bean , Apios americana , Apios tuberosa ] nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Peanut \Pea"nut\, n. (Bot.) The fruit of a trailing leguminous plant ( Arachis hypog[ae]a ); also, the plant itself, which is widely cultivated for its fruit. Note: The fruit is a hard pod, usually containing two or three seeds, sometimes but one, which ...
Usage examples of groundnut.
Heaps of wild yams, white starchy breadroots, and potatolike groundnuts boiled gently in skin pots slung over fires.
This was capped off with the East Africa Groundnut Scheme, which turned a three-million-acre swath of Tanganyikan outback into a vast state-run peanut farm that collapsed in fiasco.
She added alfalfa and clover to her diet, and welcomed the starchy, slightly sweet groundnuts, finding the roots by tracing rambling surface vines.
After a meal of starchy groundnuts wrapped in leaves to roast, and an assortment of edible greens stuffed in a giant hamster and cooked, she set up her low tent.
She also dug up wild carrots, small and pale yellow, and white, starchy groundnuts that were good raw, though she liked them better cooked.
We have no grain at all, and will have no more roots and groundnuts till the hillmen come in again to sell to us.
Many had stopped to pick at cold leftovers from the earlier meal which had been brought in: small white starchy groundnuts, wild carrots, blueberries, and slices of mammoth roast.
There were small hard apples, sweet and spicy wild carrots, peeled, gnarled roots of starchy groundnuts, pitted dried cherries, dried but still green day-lily buds, round green milk vetch dried in the pod, dried mushrooms, dried stalks of green onions, and some unidentifiable dried leaves and slices.
It was a commercial affair, to discuss better trade arrangements for groundnut oil.
Less well known are Africa's combination of sorghum, African rice, and pearl millet with cowpeas and groundnuts, and the Andes' combination of the noncereal grain quinoa with several bean species.
Less well known are Africa’s combination of sorghum, African rice, and pearl millet with cowpeas and groundnuts, and the Andes’ combination of the noncereal grain quinoa with several bean species.
In my front yard grew the strawberry, blackberry, and life-everlasting, johnswort and goldenrod, shrub oaks and sand cherry, blueberry and groundnut.
The small tuber resembled wild carrot, a sweet groundnut Jondalar was familiar with, and the first taste was nutty, but the hot aftertaste of radish was a surprise.