peanut tree

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English

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Etymology

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Because the seeds of its fruit (which is red or orange when ripe) taste like raw peanuts.

Noun

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peanut tree (plural peanut trees)

  1. A tree of the species Sterculia quadrifida; a red- or orange-fruited kurrajong.

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