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ARACHIS HYPOGAEA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
Arachis hypogaea; peanut; peanut vine
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Arachis hypogaea" is a kind of...):
legume; leguminous plant (an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae)
Meronyms (parts of "Arachis hypogaea"):
earthnut; goober; goober pea; groundnut; monkey nut; peanut (pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; 'groundnut' and 'monkey nut' are British terms)
peanut (underground pod of the peanut vine)
Holonyms ("Arachis hypogaea" is a member of...):
Arachis; genus Arachis (a genus of plants with pods that ripen underground (see peanut))
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