peanut has definitions from the fields of botany,food
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[ noun ] (botany) widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions; showy yellow flowers on stalks that bend over to the soil so that seed pods ripen underground

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legume Arachis

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[ noun ] (botany) underground pod of the peanut vine

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pod peanut_oil

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[ adjective ] of little importance or influence or power; of minor status

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"a minor, insignificant bureaucrat" "peanut politicians"

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minor

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[ noun ] a young child who is small for his age

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child

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[ noun ] (botany,food) pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms

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edible_nut

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