groundnut
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From ground + nut. Compare Icelandic jarðhneta, German Erdnuss and Hungarian földimogyoró.
Noun[edit]
groundnut (plural groundnuts)
- A climbing vine, Apios americana, of eastern North America, having fragrant brownish flowers and small edible tubers.
- Any similar plant having underground tubers.
- The nutlike tuber of such a plant.
- A plant which bears its nutlike seeds underground, such as a peanut or Bambara groundnut.