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peanut   (TTS Sound)

The noun peanut has 4 senses

• peanut -- (underground pod of the peanut vine)


• peanut, peanut vine, Arachis hypogaea -- (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)


• peanut -- (a young child who is small for his age)


• peanut, earthnut, goober, goober pea, groundnut, monkey nut -- (pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms)

The adj peanut has 1 sense

• insignificant, peanut -- (of little importance or influence or power; of minor status; "a minor, insignificant bureaucrat"; "peanut politicians")