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Definition: Peanut |
PeanutAdjective1. Of little importance or influence or power; of minor status; "a minor, insignificant bureaucrat"; "peanut politicians". Noun1. Underground pod of of the peanut vine. 2. 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. 3. Pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "peanut" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1894. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | The plant. ; the pod or fruit or the enclosed edible seed of a leguminous plant. . Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Peanuts, showing legumes, one split open
revealing two seeds with their
brown seed coatsThe peanut is the edible seed of the plant, Arachis hypogaea. Although called a nut, the peanut is a member of the pea family (Family Fabaceae) and the fruit is not a nut, but a legume or pod. Peanuts develop underground in a woody pod, usually with two seeds to a pod. The peanut plant is a hairy, taprooted annual that measures 1 to 1.5 feet in height.
Peanuts are often roasted and salted, but also are often eaten raw, or boiled in salt water. They can also be made into peanut butter, peanut brittle, candy bars, and other products. Peanut oil is often used in cooking, because it has a mald flavor and burns only at a relatively high temperature.
Although most people enjoy many foods made with peanuts, some people have severe allergic reactions to peanuts; eating a single peanut can be fatal. For these individuals, just breathing the dust from peanuts has caused a fatal reaction. Because of this, peanuts are less frequently served on airplanes and peanut products are banned by many school districts for the protection of allergic students. Peanut oil does not contain the same proteins as the whole nut, so very few people are allergic to it. There is now an experimental drug available to combat this allergy, called TNX-901.
Peanuts are also known as groundnuts (because they grow underground), earthnuts, goobers, goober peas, pindas, pinders, Manila nuts and monkey nuts (although the last of these is often used to mean the entire pod, not just the seeds).
Culture
The flower of the Arachis hypogaea is borne above ground and after it withers, the stalk elongates, bends down, and forces the ovary underground. When the seed is mature, the inner lining of the pods (called the seed coat) changes color from white to a reddish brown. The entire plant, including most of the roots, is removed from the soil during harvesting.
The pods begin in the orange veined, yellow petaled, pealike flowers, which are borne in axillary clusters above ground. Following self-pollination (peanuts are complete inbreeders), the flowers fade. The stalks at the bases of the ovaries, called pegs, elongate rapidly, and turn downward to bury the fruits several inches in the ground to complete their development.
The pods act in nutrient absorption. The fruits have wrinkled shells that are constricted between the two to three seeds. The mature seeds resemble other legume seeds, such as beans, but they have paper-thin seed coats, as opposed to the usual, hard legume seed coats.
Peanuts grow best in light, sandy loam soil. They require five months of warm weather, and an annual rainfall of 20 to 40 inches or the equivalent in irrigation water.
The pods ripen 120 to 150 days after the seeds are planted. If the crop is harvested too early, the pods will be unripe. If they are harvested late, the pods will snap off at the stalk, and will remain in the soil.
Wrong storage of peanuts can lead to an infestation by the fungus Aspergillus flavus, releasing the toxic substance aflatoxin.
Types of Peanuts
Four types of peanuts are the most popular: Spanish, Runner, Virginia, and Valencia. There are also Tennessee Red and Tennessee White types. Certain types are preferred for particular uses because of differences in flavor, oil content, size, and shape. For many uses the different types are interchangeable. Most peanuts marketed in the shell are of the Virginia type, along with some Valencias selected for large size and the attractive appearance of the shell. Spanish peanuts are used mostly for peanut candy, salted nuts, and peanut butter. Most Runners are used to make peanut butter.
The various types are distinguished by branching habit and branch length. There are numerous varieties of each type of peanut.
Each year new varieties of peanuts are introduced somewhere in the peanut belt of the U.S. or in other countries. Introducing a new variety may mean change in the planting rate, adjusting the planter, harvester, dryer, cleaner, sheller, and method of marketing.
There are two main growth forms: bunch and runner. Bunch types grow upright, while runner types grow near the ground.
Spanish Types
The small Spanish types are grown in South Africa, and in the southwestern and southeastern U.S. Prior to 1940, 90 percent of the peanuts grown in Georgia were Spanish types, but the trend since then has been larger seeded, higher yielding, more disease resistant varieties.
Varieties of the Spanish type include Dixie Spanish, Improved Spanish 2B, GFA Spanish, Argentine, Spantex, Spanette, Shaffers Spanish, Natal Common (Spanish), White Kernel Varieties, Starr, Comet, Florispan, Spanhoma, Spancross, and Wilco I.
Runner Types
Since 1940, there has been a shift to production of Runner type peanuts in the southeastern U.S. This is due to higher yields and wider use in peanut butter and salting, as compared to Spanish types.
Varieties of Runners include Southeastern Runner 56-15, Dixie Runner, Early Runner, Virginia Bunch 67, Bradford Runner, Egyptian Giant (also known as Virginia Bunch and Giant), Rhodesian Spanish Bunch (Valencia and Virginia Bunch), North Carolina Runner 56-15, Florunner, and Shulamit.
Virginia Types
The large seeded Virginia types are grown in Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and parts of Georgia. They are increasing in popularity due to demand for large peanuts for processing, particularly for salting, confections, and roasting in the shells.
Virginia type peanuts are either bunch or running in growth habit. The bunch type is upright to spreading. It attains a height of 18 to 22 inches, and a spread of 28 to 30 inches, with 33 to 36 inch rows that seldom cover the ground. The pods are borne within a few inches of the base of the plant.
Varieties of Virginia type peanuts include Virginia Bunch Large, Virginia Bunch 46-2, Virginia Bunch Small, Virginia Bunch 67, Virginia Bunch G2, Virginia Runner G26, NC 4X, NC 2, NC 5, Georgia Hybrid 119-20, Holland Jumbo, Holland Station Runner, Adkins Runner, Virginia Runner 26, Virginia Runner G (Holland Virginia Runner), Virginia 56 R, Virginia 61 R, Florigiant, Georgia Hybrid 119-18, Virginia B22-15, Virginia A17-12, Virginia A23-7, and Florida 416.
Valencia Types
Valencia types are coarse, and they have heavy reddish stems and large foliage. They are comparatively tall, having a height of 50 inches and a spread of 30 inches. Peanut pods are borne on pegs arising from the main stem and the side branches. Most of the pods are clustered around the base of the plant, and only a few are found several inches away. Valencia types are three seeded and smooth, with no constriction between the seeds. Seeds are oval and tightly crowded into the pods. There are two strains, one with flesh and the other with red seeds. The seed count is 65 to each ounce.
Tennessee Red and Tennessee White Types
These are alike, except for the color of the seed. The plants are similar to Valencia types, except that the stems are green to greenish brown, and the pods are rough, irregular, and have a smaller proportion of kernels.
Uses
Peanuts for edible uses account for two-thirds of the total peanut consumption in the United States. The principal uses are peanut butter (see peanut butter and jelly sandwich), peanut candy, salted, shelled nuts, and nuts that have been roasted in the shell. Salted peanuts are usually roasted in oil and packed in retail size, transparent plastic bags and hermetically sealed cans. Dry roasted, salted peanuts are also marketed in significant quantities. The primary use of peanut butter is in the home, but large quantities are also used in the commercial manufacture of sandwiches, candy, and bakery products.
Low grade or culled peanuts not suitable for the edible market are utilized in the production of peanut oil, seed and feed.
Peanuts have a variety of industrial end uses. Paint, varnish, lubricating oil, leather dressings, furniture polish, insecticides, and nitroglycerin are made from peanut oil. Soap is made from saponified oil, and many cosmetics contain peanut oil and its derivatives. The protein portion of the oil is utilized in the manufacture of some textile fibers.
Peanut shells are put to use in the manufacture of plastic, wallboard, abrasives, and fuel. They are also used to make cellulose (used in rayon and paper) and mucilage (glue).
Peanut plant tops are used to make hay. The protein cake (oilcake meal) residue from oil processing is utilized as an animal feed and as a soil fertilizer.
George Washington Carver identified more than 300 different uses for peanuts. He encouraged cotton farmers to grow peanuts instead of or in addition to cotton because cotton had leached so much nitrogen from the soil in Alabama, and one of the peanut's properties as a legume is to put nitrogen back into the soil. His purpose in identifying a variety of uses was to encourage the growth of demand for the peanut so it could become a viable cash crop alternative to cotton.
U.S. Department of Agriculture Program for Peanuts
Peanuts have been designated by the United States Congress to be one of America's basic crops. In order to protect domestic industry by keeping prices artificially high, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) conducts a Program for Peanuts. Two USDA programs for domestic peanuts are the Price Support Program and the Production Adjustment Program (National Poundage Quota). The Price Support Program consists of a two-tier price support system that is tied to a maximum poundage quota. Domestic peanuts produced subject to the poundage quota are supported at the higher of two prices, while peanuts over quota or those produced on farms not having a quota are supported at the lower rate. The quota support price acts as a floor price for domestic edible peanuts. For producers who fail to fill their quota in any given year, there is a maximum 10 percent over marketing allowance for the subsequent year. Pursuant to the program, producers may place peanuts under nonrecourse loan with the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) at the designated support price or they may privately contract for the sale of their crop.
Trade
The major producers/exporters of peanuts are the United States, Argentina, Sudan, Senegal, and Brazil. These five countries account for 71 percent of total world exports. In recent years, the United States has been the leading exporter of peanuts. The major peanut importers are the European Economic Community (EEC), Canada, and Japan. These three areas account for 78 percent of the world's imports.Although India and China are the world's largest producers of peanuts, they account for a small part of international trade because most of their production is consumed domestically as peanut oil. Exports of peanuts from India and China are equivalent to less than four percent of world trade.
Ninety percent of India's production is processed into peanut oil. Only a nominal amount of hand-picked select-grade peanuts are exported. India prohibits the importation of all oil seeds, including peanuts.
The European Union is the largest consuming region in the world that does not produce peanuts. All of its consumption is supplied by imports. Consumption of peanuts in the EU is primarily as food, mostly as roasted-in-shell peanuts and as shelled peanuts used in confectionery and bakery products.
The average annual imports of peanuts are less than 0.5 percent of U.S. consumption. Two thirds of U.S. imports are roasted, unshelled peanuts. The major suppliers are Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China, and Canada. The principal suppliers of shelled peanut imports are Argentina and Canada. Most of Canada's peanut butter is processed from Chinese peanuts. Imports of peanut butter from Argentina are in the form of a paste and must be further processed in the U.S. Other minor suppliers of peanut butter include Malawi, China, India, and Singapore.
See also
- George Washington Carver
- peanut butter and jelly sandwich
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Peanut."
Synonyms: PeanutSynonyms: insignificant (adj), earthnut (n), goober (n), goober pea (n), groundnut (n), monkey nut (n), peanut vine (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Peanut |
| English words defined with "peanut": Amphicarpa, Amphicarpaea, Arachis ♦ earthnut ♦ genus Amphicarpa, genus Amphicarpaea, genus Arachis, goober, goober pea, groundnut ♦ Hypogaeic ♦ monkey nut ♦ peanut worm, phylum Sipuncula ♦ Sipuncula, sipunculid ♦ Theobromic. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "peanut": Additional peanuts ♦ DEPOSITING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996, filling-machine operator, Food and Agriculture Act of 1977, Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations ♦ Marketing quotas, marshmallow-machine worker ♦ No net cost ♦ Peanut poundage quota, Peanut price support program, PEANUT-BUTTER MAKER ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal ♦ Safeguards, import, Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, spreading-machine operator ♦ Two-tiered pricing. (references) |
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Screenplays | Gazillion dollars worth of computer equipment and not one jar of peanut butter (Birds of Prey; writing credit: Adam Armus; Nora Kay Foster) Why don't you get me ginger ale, with a big scoop of peanut butter (Saved by the Bell; writing credit: Ana Maria Moretzsohn) Right now he's probably dancing around in his grandma's panties, yeah, rubbing himself in peanut butter (Se7en; writing credit: Andrew Kevin Walker) I wanted a peanut. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) After all, you know how hard it is to stop after one peanut. (Mary Tyler Moore; writing credit: Harold Jacob Smith) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Peanut Battle (1962) The Peanut Man (1947) Roll Your Peanut (1914) Peanut Rain (1997) The Peanut Butter Solution (1985) | |
Song Titles | Peanut Butter Pie (performing artist: Tom Paxton) | |
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 | A display of high fat foods. Such as pastries, lunch meat, crackers, olives, avocado, peanut butter, and coconut on a table. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | (4) color slides show a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, the top slice of bread is turned clockwise so as to see the peanut butter and jelly filling. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |
 | African American farmer,Carol Otis examines his organicly grown peanut crop near Hattisburg, Ms. Credit: USDA. |  | Peanut harvesting in Alabama. Credit: USDA. |
 | When you add it all up, peanuts aren't just peanuts-they're quite an important crop. The United States produces between 3 and 4 billion pounds of peanuts annually, and about 40 percent of these go into processed foods, from salted peanuts, candy, crackers, and cookies to peanut butter. They're a major source of vegetable oil too. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | Wait, don't buy an elephant. Bill Taft is coming with a real live peanut eating elephant. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Packing peanut butter. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Peanut stand, West 42nd [Forty-second] St., New York. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Loading truck with peanut shell feed. Peanut-shelling plant. Comanche, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Peanut buying office in Enfield, North Carolina, largest open peanut market in U.S. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Health | Almost all foods contain phosphorus, but it's especially high in milk, cheese, dried beans, peas, nuts, and peanut butter. (references) | |
Examples are bananas, rice, tapioca, bread, potatoes, applesauce, cheese, smooth peanut butter, yogurt, pasta, and oatmeal. (references) | ||
In highly allergic people even minuscule amounts of a food allergen (for example, 1/44,000 of a peanut kernel) can prompt an allergic reaction. (references) | ||
Business | The most commonly used types of agricultural machinery, implements and parts are medium-size tractors, hay bailers, grain drills, peanut diggers, ploughs, rakes, reaping vehicles, fodder machines, ditchers and cane harvesters. (references) | |
Economic History | Senegal | Exports of peanut products reached $79 million in 2000 and represented 11% of total export earnings. (references) |
Senegal | Tertiary sector: 60.9% of GDP of which services represent 39.7% of GDP and trade 21.2% of GDP. Trade (2000): Exports--$908.1 million (fish products, peanut products, phosphate products). (references) | |
Gambia, The | Within agriculture, peanut production accounts for 5.3% of GDP, other crops 8.3%, livestock 4.4%, fishing 1.8%, and forestry 0.5%. Industry accounts for 12% of GDP and forestry 0.5%. Manufacturing accounts for 6% of GDP. The limited amount of manufacturing is primarily agriculturally based (e.g., peanut processing, bakeries, a brewery, and a tannery). (references) | |
Trade | Brazil | Breeder livestock (cattle, swine, sheep, goats, horses and donkeys, including semen and embryos); wine and brandy, distilled spirits (rum, wodka and whiskey); fresh vegetables (asparagus, beans, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, celery, corn, garlic, lettuce, onions, peppers, potatoes and tomatoes); canned vegetables (asparagus, beans, carrots, corn, peas, tomatoes and tomato paste); frozen vegetables (beans, broccoli, carrots, corn and spinach); peanut butter or peanut flour; dairy products (butter, butter oil, ghee, anhydrous milk fat, non-fat and whole milk powder, whey powder, whey protein concentrate, lactose, non-sweetened condensed milk, fluid milk, lecithin and cheese); ice cream; meat, frozen or chilled (beef, pork and their products);wheat, wheat flour, semolina; cotton, 100% cotton yarn, 100% cotton fabrics (woven and knit unbleached/bleached/dyed, and/or printed); rice; feed grains (barley, including malting barley, white corn, yellow corn, sorghum and oats); corn products (flour, starch, corn meal, popcorn and gluten); pulses(dry beans, peas and lentils), poultry breeder stock (baby chicks, turkey pouts and hatching eggs); eggs and egg products (fresh, dry, refrigerated, frozen, albumin, etc); fresh fruits (apples, apricots, avocados, blueberries, cherries, grapes, grapefruit, kiwi, lemons, melons, nectarines, oranges, pears, plums, peaches, raspberries and tangerines); hops: hops extract; tallow: grease, lard, barley malt; potatoes(cut and chilled or frozen; flakes, granules); peanuts; commercially prepared dog and cat food, animal feed ingredients, fish food; seeds for sowing; almonds ( walnuts, pistachios, hazelnut and pecan); dry fruits, frozen fruits, canned fruits, fruit pure and fruit pulp, 100% natural fruit juice; seafood (fresh and frozen);tomato paste; alfalfa; honey; skins; nutritional beverages preparations (for human consumption); soy protein products; vegetable oils; wood; beer; cereals; preparation for breads and pizzas (powder, refrigerated of frozen); canned pickles; ready-to-eat meals; soft drinks and sodas; soups and sauces. (references) |
Worker Rights | Gambia | Several companies, including peanut oil exporters, began operation in the EPZ in August 2000. The Labor Code covers workers in the EPZ's, and they are afforded the same rights as workers elsewhere in the economy. (references) |
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Dennis Miller | Sure, we pay lip service to cooperation and altruism, but in the real world, those values are ignored like crunchy peanut butter at a nursing home. |
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| "Peanut" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.48% of the time. "Peanut" is used about 119 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.48% | 116 | 29,969 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.68% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 0.84% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 119 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "peanut": hog peanut ♦ Madagascar peanut ♦ Peanut Agglutinin ♦ peanut bar ♦ peanut brittle ♦ peanut butter ♦ peanut gallery ♦ peanut oil ♦ peanut vine ♦ peanut worm ♦ wild peanut. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "peanut": peanut-brained, peanut-butter, peanut-like, peanut-roaster, peanut-shaped, peanut-sized. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
peanut | 1,533 | peanut character | 104 |
butter jelly peanut time | 1,282 | peanut cartoon | 102 |
peanut butter cookie | 695 | boiled peanut recipe | 100 |
peanut butter | 667 | peanut butter pie recipe | 91 |
recipe for peanut butter cookie | 550 | peanut gang | 89 |
peanut butter and jelly | 381 | mr peanut | 89 |
peanut allergy | 309 | peter pan peanut butter | 83 |
butter jelly peanut song | 290 | peanut oil | 77 |
boiled peanut | 212 | picture of peanut | 69 |
peanut butter pie | 194 | comic peanut | 69 |
planter peanut | 190 | peanut butter ball | 67 |
peanut butter diet | 188 | peanut butter frosting | 66 |
butter its jelly peanut time | 179 | peanut sauce | 65 |
peanut comic strip | 155 | peanut and snoopy | 61 |
skippy peanut butter | 146 | peanut butter cake | 60 |
peanut butter recipe | 131 | packing peanut | 59 |
reeses peanut butter cup | 126 | peanut butter cup | 51 |
peanut brittle | 124 | butter icing peanut | 51 |
peanut butter fudge | 112 | peanut brittle recipe | 49 |
peanut butter fudge recipe | 105 | jif peanut butter | 49 |
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| Language | Translations for "peanut"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kikirik (groundnut, monkey-nut), badiava. (various references) | |
Arabic | فول سوداني, مقدار ضئيل (crumb, dab, dash, dribble, element, glimmer, hint, mouthful, nip, smack, trace, trifle, whit), الفول السوداني, شخص تافه (bauble, black sheep, bugger, crumb, deformity, dog, insect, morsel, myrmidon, nitwit, pipsqueak, rag, sprat, swab, toad, trash). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | фъстъчен, фъстък (earthnut, groundnut, midget, monkey-nut, nut), нула (cipher, goose-egg, love, naught, nil, nonentity, nothing, nought, null, ought, zero), дребосък (elf, midget, minikin, minim, shorty, shrimp, sprat), дребна риба (small fry, sprat). (various references) | |
Catalan | cacauet. (various references) | |
Chinese | 花" (groundnut). (various references) | |
Czech | burský oříšek (monkey-nut), arašíd (groundnut). (various references) | |
Danish | jordnoedder (ground-nut), jordnød (arachis hypogaea, earthnut, earth-nut, groundnut, ground-nut). (various references) | |
Dutch | aardnoot (ground-nut), pinda (ground-nut), apenoot (ground-nut). (various references) | |
Esperanto | arakido. (various references) | |
Faeroese | jarðnøt. (various references) | |
Farsi | پسته زمینی , رنگ کنف , رنگ کتانی . (various references) | |
Finnish | maapähkinä (groundnut). (various references) | |
French | arachide, cacahouète. (various references) | |
Frisian | apenút. (various references) | |
German | Erdnuß (arachis hypogaea, earthnut, earth-nut, groundnut, ground-nut), Erdnuss (groundnut, monkey-nut). (various references) | |
Greek | σπέρμα αραχιδών (ground-nut), γεωκαρύδι (groundnut), αράπικο φιστίκι. (various references) | |
Hebrew | א'וז א"מ" (groundnut). (various references) | |
Hungarian | földimogyoró (groundnut). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kacang tanah. (various references) | |
Italian | arachide (arachis hypogaea, earthnut, earth-nut, groundnut, ground-nut). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 落花" , "ル風 (binding, bingo, eddies of wind around high buildings, foot fastening, green pepper, pea coat, pea jacket, peace, peach, peacock, peahen, peak, peanut butter, peanuts, peas, peek, peep show, Peeping Tom, people, people's capitalism, Peter Pan syndrome, Piaget, pianica, pianist, piano, piano and harmonica, piazza, piece, piecework, piercer, pimento, PR, public relations, Russian food, velvet, village, vintage, vintage year), 南京豆 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | "ーナツ , な"き"まめ, らっかせい. (various references) | |
Korean | 땅콩. (various references) | |
Manx | pishyr hallooin (groundnut), cro thallooin (ground nut, monkey nut). (various references) | |
Papago | kaka-wuathi. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eanutpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | amendoim (ground nut, monkey-nut), aráquida (arachis hypogaea, earthnut, earth-nut, groundnut, ground-nut). (various references) | |
Romanian | sume mici de bani, arahidã. (various references) | |
Romany | fastutaya. (various references) | |
Russian | арахис (earth-nut, goober, groundnut, ground-nut, monkey-nut). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kikiriki (groundnut, monkey-nut), beznačajna stvar, beznačajna osoba (pipsqueak). (various references) | |
Shona | dovi (peanut butter). (various references) | |
Spanish | cacahuete (groundnut, monkeynut), maní (demo, groundnut, monkeynut). (various references) | |
Sranan | pinda. (various references) | |
Swedish | jordnöt (earthnut, groundnut, monkey-nut). (various references) | |
Turkish | yerfıstığı, yer fıstığı (groundnut), küçük adam (minikin, pipsqueak), küçük (baby, bantam, child, fiddling, inconsiderable, infant, infra-, junior, kid, little, micro-, mini, mini-, minor, minuscule, nano-, not healthy, one horse, paltry, petit, petty, piddling, poky, remote, slight, small, snug, tiddly, trifling, trivial, undersized, young, younger), fıstık (bit of fluff, crumpet, fluff, pistachio), önemsiz kimse (cipher, featherweight, lay figure, lightweight, negligible quantity, nonentity, non-starter, small beer, small change, snip), önemsiz (back burner, derisive, derisory, dinky, empty, fiddling, footling, immaterial, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inconspicuous, indifferent, inessential, insignificant, jerkwater, minute, negligible, no-account, non essential, nonessential, not healthy, not worth a fig, null, of no account, of no significance, of no worth, one horse, paltry, paper, peddling, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, poky, potty, quotidian, scrubby, secondary, slight, small, smalltime, trifling, trivial, tuppeny, unessential, unimportant, unsubstantial, worthless, yeasty), çerez parası. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | маленька людина, арахіс (ground nut, monkey-nut). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nhỏ nhen; nhãi nhép, người bé xíu, cây lạc, anh ch ng nhãi nhép. (various references) | |
Zulu | intogomane, ilintogomane. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Arachis hypogaea. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "peanut": peanuts. (additional references) | |
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"Peanut" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: epano, epanoui, Palamut, Panafu, panout, peana, peano, peanot, peanus, pedaneus, peenut, Peignot, Peijun, Peiyun, penat, penault, Peniuto, pennut, penot, Prayut. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "peanut" (pronounced pē"nut or pē"nu't) |
| 3 | -n u t | alternate, affectionate, baronet, Bennet, bicarbonate, bluebonnet, bonnet, cabinet, compassionate, coordinate, incarnate, definite, diaconate, dispassionate, disproportionate, effeminate, electromagnet, extortionate, ferromagnet, fortunate, garnet, geminate, granite, hornet, indefinite, indeterminate, indiscriminate, infinite, innominate, inordinate, laminate, magnate, magnet, minute, obstinate, passionate, Pinot, planet, proportionate, rennet, senate, Sennet, sultanate, tenet, unfortunate, unit. |
| 3 | -n u' t | chestnut, coconut, donut, doughnut, groundnut, hazelnut, walnut. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-n-p-t-u" | |
-1 letter: paten, taupe, unapt. | |
-2 letters: ante, aunt, etna, nape, neap, neat, pane, pant, pate, pean, peat, pent, puna, punt, tape, tepa, tuna, tune. | |
-3 letters: ane, ant, ape, apt, ate, eat, eau, eta, nae, nap, net, nut, pan, pat, pea, pen, pet, pun, put, tae, tan, tap, tau, tea, ten, tun, tup, uta. | |
-4 letters: ae, an. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-n-p-t-u" | |
+1 letter: peanuts, petunia, putamen. | |
+2 letters: patulent, petulant, petunias, punctate, supinate, unparted, untapped. | |
+3 letters: enrapture, inculpate, penultima, petulance, petulancy, pneumatic, pulmonate, punctuate, repugnant, supinated, supinates, unadapted, unaptness, underpart, unpainted, unplaited, uptearing. | |
+4 letters: abruptness, antepenult, antiplague, antiplaque, bankrupted, cantaloupe, conceptual, depurating, deputation, enraptured, enraptures, euphoriant, houseplant, inaptitude, inculpated, inculpates, manipulate, multipaned, neuropathy, outleaping, outpainted, outpatient, outplanned, outspanned, paniculate, pantsuited, parqueting, parturient, paunchiest, peculating, peculation, penultimas, petulances, petulantly, plateauing, precaution, prenuptial, prudential, pulmonates, punctuated, punctuates, purtenance, reputation, resupinate, superagent, supergiant, supplanted, supplanter, unaccepted, unapparent, unbaptized, uncarpeted, underpants, underparts, unemphatic, unhappiest, unparented, unpedantic, unpleasant, unpregnant, unstrapped. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Quotations: Spoken 10. Usage Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Translations: Ancient 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Bibliography |
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