monkey nut

Questions about monkey nut

What does monkey nut mean?

monkey nut means "pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms".

What is another word for monkey nut?

Close synonyms include peanut, earthnut, goober, goober pea, groundnut. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is monkey nut a common word?

monkey nut is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.