GROUNDNUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does groundnut mean? 

• GROUNDNUT (noun)
  The noun GROUNDNUT has 3 senses:

1. a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans

2. nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans

3. pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; 'groundnut' and 'monkey nut' are British terms

  Familiarity information: GROUNDNUT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GROUNDNUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Apios americana; Apios tuberosa; groundnut; groundnut vine; Indian potato; potato bean; wild bean

Hypernyms ("groundnut" is a kind of...):

vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)

Meronyms (parts of "groundnut"):

groundnut; potato bean; wild bean (nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans)

Holonyms ("groundnut" is a member of...):

Apios; genus Apios (twining perennial North American plants)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

groundnut; potato bean; wild bean

Hypernyms ("groundnut" is a kind of...):

tuber (a fleshy underground stem or root serving for reproductive and food storage)

Holonyms ("groundnut" is a part of...):

Apios americana; Apios tuberosa; groundnut; groundnut vine; Indian potato; potato bean; wild bean (a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; 'groundnut' and 'monkey nut' are British terms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

earthnut; goober; goober pea; groundnut; monkey nut; peanut

Hypernyms ("groundnut" is a kind of...):

edible nut (a hard-shelled seed consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell)

Holonyms ("groundnut" is a part of...):

Arachis hypogaea; peanut; peanut vine (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)

 Context examples 

Previous attempts at making filters out of materials such as groundnut shell, mango leaf, rice husk and sugarcane bagasse, met with limited success.

(Watermelon rind a cheap filter for arsenic in groundwater, SciDev.Net)