peanut
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- noun
- /ˈpiːnʌt/
:
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- And you don't like peanut butter?
- peanut butter
- roasted peanuts
- eat peanuts
Also, from now on, it's not peanut butter, it's spreadable nut poop.
- Also, from now on, it's not peanut butter, it's spreadable nut poop.
- They're like orange peanut, like fluffy pseudo.
Examples
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- Would you care for some peanuts?
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A small fee for shelling peanuts will support additional projects.
Academic text (2011) -
At home I eat them with peanut butter.
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"Right now, it's being used to some degree in every major peanut farming state," he says.
Academic text (1996) -
My first year in New York, I went hungry and lived on peanut butter, coffee, and Lucky Strikes.
Fiction book (1991) -
I grabbed my peanuts and started throwing 'em at the monkeys as a diversion.
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" Get a big jar of peanut butter and two loaves of bread," Nancy shrugged.
Fiction book (1994) -
She's allergic to peanuts.
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If you don't like it, right over there is the peanut butter jar ( 'Road Kill du Jour' 1989).
Academic text (2017) -
I enjoy eating peanuts as a healthy snack while I watch movies.
Synonyms
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A large hard seed with a shell that you can eat
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A peanut in its shell that usually has two seeds
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A small shell from the peanut plant that holds two nuts often eaten as a snack
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A peanut that is still in its shell, often with two nuts inside
A dry pod on the peanut plant that has two seeds you can eat
Small peanuts often eaten as a snack
The pod of the peanut plant that holds the edible nuts
A low plant that has yellow flowers and pods that grow under the soil and make edible peanuts
A plant that makes edible seeds called peanuts that grow underground
Compounds
A low plant that has yellow flowers and pods that grow under the soil and make edible peanuts
- Specialized
A small sea worm that pulls its front part into its body and looks like a peanut
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Etymology
Peanut is a simple name made from pea and nut because the seed is very small like a 'pea' but thought of as a kind of 'nut'. So a peanut is the small edible seed that grows in a pod and is eaten as a snack.