PEANUTS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does peanuts mean? 

• PEANUTS (noun)
  The noun PEANUTS has 1 sense:

1. an insignificant sum of money; a trifling amount

  Familiarity information: PEANUTS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEANUTS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An insignificant sum of money; a trifling amount

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Context example:

her salary is peanuts compared to his

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

amount; amount of money; sum; sum of money (a quantity of money)

 Context examples 

Coenzyme Q10 is fat-soluble (can dissolve in fats and oils) and is found in fatty fish, beef, soybeans, peanuts, and spinach.

(coenzyme Q10, NCI Dictionary)

It is found in whole milk, beef liver, eggs, soy foods, and peanuts.

(Choline, NCI Dictionary)

Researchers found no evidence of an association between total nut consumption and risk of stroke, but eating peanuts and walnuts was inversely associated with the risk of stroke.

(Eating Regular Variety of Nuts Associated with Lower Risk of Heart Disease, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

CoQ10 is fat-soluble (can dissolve in fats and oils) and is found in fatty fish, beef, soybeans, peanuts, and spinach.

(CoQ10, NCI Dictionary)

In adults, the foods that most often trigger allergic reactions include fish, shellfish, peanuts, and tree nuts, such as walnuts.

(Food Allergy, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

The edible oil extracted from peanuts.

(Peanut Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

Clinical guidelines previously recommended that infants at high risk for allergy avoid allergenic foods, such as peanuts.

(Peanut Consumption in Infancy Lowers Peanut Allergy, NIH)

The researchers recreated this genomic merger by crossing the two ancient peanuts species and analyzing the results in seven generations of offspring plants.

(Peanut Genome Sequenced with Unprecedent Accuracy, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

It is found as a contaminant in peanuts, cottonseed meal, corn, and other grains.

(Aflatoxin B1, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Furthermore, most allergic reactions to common food allergens, such as peanuts or crustacean shellfish, begin about 5 to 30 minutes after a person is exposed.

(NIAID scientists link cases of unexplained anaphylaxis to red meat allergy, National Institutes of Health)