groundnut

Meanings

Plural: groundnuts

Noun

• a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans
• nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans
• pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms
• A climbing vine, Apios americana, of eastern North America, having fragrant brownish flowers and small edible tubers.
• Any similar plant having underground tubers.
• The nutlike tuber of such a plant, especially peanuts.
• A plant which bears its nutlike seeds underground, such as a peanut (Arachis hypogaea) or a Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea).

Synonyms

Apios americana, Apios tuberosa, earthnut, goober, goober pea, groundnut vine, Indian potato, monkey nut, peanut, potato bean, wild bean

Related Words

earthnut, tree nut