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The answer PEANUT has 144 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of peanut in various dictionaries:
noun - underground pod of the peanut vine
noun - widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions
noun - a young child who is small for his age
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| Stadium munchie |
| Shell food? |
| Insignificant one |
| Treat for an elephant |
| G.W. Carver concern |
| G.W. Carver studied it |
| Small |
| Bar-bowl tidbit |
| Squirt |
| Top-hatted Planters logo Mr. __ |
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| In Ghana a dumpling called fufu is served with a soup made of the groundnut known here as this |
| Georgia produces 45% of the nation's supply of this legume |
| (Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) Taylor Grocery here in Mississippi fries catfish in oil made from this legume, widely grown in the South; it can be heated to high temperatures without smoking |
| Kimbunda speakers know nguba, from which we get goober, means this |
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| the oval seed of a tropical South American plant, often roasted and salted and eaten as a snack or used to make oil or animal feed. |
| an oval-shaped nut that grows underground in pairs inside a thin brown shell: |
| something so small it is not worth considering, especially an amount of money: |
| a small nut that grows in a shell under the ground |
| pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds groundnut' and monkey nut' are British terms |
| a young child who is small for his age |
| 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 |
| underground pod of the peanut vine |
| of little importance or influence or power of minor status |
| A prostrate southern Brazilian plant (Arachis hypogaea) widely cultivated in tropical and warm temperate regions, having yellow flowers on stalks that bend over so that the seed pods ripen underground. |
| Geographic Matches |
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| Peanut, ARKANSAS, UNITED STATES |
| Peanut, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES |
| Peanut, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES |
| Peanut description |
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The peanut, also known as the groundnut or the goober and taxonomically classified as Arachis hypogaea, is a legume crop grown mainly for its edible seeds. It is widely grown in the tropics and subtropics, being important to both small and large commercial producers. It is classified as both a grain legume and, because of its high oil content, an oil crop. World annual production of shelled peanuts was 42 million tonnes in 2014. Atypically among crop plants, peanut pods develop underground rather than aboveground. It is this characteristic that the botanist Linnaeus used to assign the specific name hypogaea, which means "under the earth." * As a legume, the peanut belongs to the botanical family Fabaceae; this is also known as Leguminosae, and commonly known as the bean, or pea, family. Like most other legumes, peanuts harbor symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria in root nodules. This capacity to fix nitrogen means peanuts require less nitrogen-containing fertilizer and improve soil fertil |