WILD PEANUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wild peanut mean? 

• WILD PEANUT (noun)
  The noun WILD PEANUT has 1 sense:

1. vine widely distributed in eastern North America producing racemes of purple to maroon flowers and abundant (usually subterranean) edible one-seeded pods resembling peanuts

  Familiarity information: WILD PEANUT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WILD PEANUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Vine widely distributed in eastern North America producing racemes of purple to maroon flowers and abundant (usually subterranean) edible one-seeded pods resembling peanuts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Amphicarpa bracteata; Amphicarpaea bracteata; hog peanut; wild peanut

Hypernyms ("wild peanut" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("wild peanut" is a member of...):

Amphicarpa; Amphicarpaea; genus Amphicarpa; genus Amphicarpaea (very small genus of twining vines of North America and Asia: hog peanut)

 Context examples 

The team’s genomic analysis of populations of plants that make up the wild peanut species pointed to a region in northern Argentina known as Rio Seco.

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