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
an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae
noun
pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms
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