peanut : Idioms & Phrases

• noun vine widely distributed in eastern North America producing racemes of purple to maroon flowers and abundant (usually subterranean) edible one-seeded pods resembling peanuts
  Amphicarpa bracteata; Amphicarpaea bracteata; hog peanut.
  

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• (Bot.), a kind of earth pea.

Webster 1913

• noun bar of peanuts in taffy
  

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• noun brittle containing peanuts
  

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• noun a spread made from ground peanuts
  

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• noun (figurative) people whose criticisms are regarded as irrelevant or insignificant (resembling uneducated people who throw peanuts on the stage to express displeasure with a performance)
  
  • he ignored complaints from the peanut gallery
• noun rearmost or uppermost area in the balcony containing the least expensive seats
  upper balcony; family circle; second balcony.
  

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• noun an oil from peanuts; used in cooking and making soap
  groundnut oil.
  

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• noun 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; Arachis hypogaea.
  

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• noun small unsegmented marine worm that when disturbed retracts its anterior portion into the body giving the appearance of a peanut
  sipunculid.
  

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• noun vine widely distributed in eastern North America producing racemes of purple to maroon flowers and abundant (usually subterranean) edible one-seeded pods resembling peanuts
  Amphicarpa bracteata; Amphicarpaea bracteata; hog peanut.
  

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