wild peanut

1. 1.

   vine widely distributed in eastern North America producing racemes of purple to maroon flowers and abundant (usually subterranean) edible one-seeded pods resembling peanuts

   Synonymshog peanutAmphicarpaea bracteataAmphicarpa bracteata

   Broadervine

   Part ofAmphicarpaea

Questions about wild peanut

What does wild peanut mean?

wild peanut means "vine widely distributed in eastern North America producing racemes of purple to maroon flowers and abundant (usually subterranean) edible one-seeded pods resembling peanuts".

What is another word for wild peanut?

Close synonyms include hog peanut, Amphicarpaea bracteata, Amphicarpa bracteata. 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 wild peanut a common word?

wild peanut 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.