Groundnut Definition

groundnŭt
groundnuts
noun
groundnuts
A climbing vine (Apios americana) in the pea family, native to eastern North America, having compound leaves, clusters of fragrant brownish flowers, and small edible tubers.
American Heritage
A plant with edible tubers or tuberlike parts, as the peanut.
Webster's New World
The edible tuber or tuberlike part.
Webster's New World
A peanut.
American Heritage
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Other Word Forms of Groundnut

Noun

Singular:
groundnut
Plural:
groundnuts

Origin of Groundnut

Groundnut Sentence Examples

  • The groundnut boom ended in the 1970's, when the rosette virus limited groundnut production.

  • In my front yard grew the strawberry, blackberry, and life-everlasting, johnswort and goldenrod, shrub oaks and sand cherry, blueberry and groundnut.

  • Additionally, the disease known as groundnut rosette virus, which is carried by aphids, has ravaged crops.

  • The picked leaves are usually either prepared for market by simple exposure to the sun for a few days, or in addition are sprinkled with groundnut oil and sometimes other materials also, which result in an increase of strength.

  • Its principal products are cotton, wheat and opium - the anti-opium decrees of 1906 had little effect on the province up to 1910 - and these it exchanges with the neighbouring provinces for coal, iron, salt, &c. Kao-liang, pulse, millet, maize, groundnut, barley, beans, pease, lucerne, and rape seed are also grown.

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