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say it: PEE-nuht
peanut is a noun and adjective meaning "underground pod of the peanut vine". It carries 5 recorded senses.
underground pod of the peanut vine
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
a young child who is small for his age
pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms
of little importance or influence or power; of minor status
“a minor, insignificant bureaucrat”
“peanut politicians”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for peanut come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.