different between groundnut vs earthnut

English

Etymology

From ground +? nut. Compare Icelandic jarðhneta, German Erdnuss and Hungarian földimogyoró.

Noun

groundnut (plural groundnuts)

1. A climbing vine, Apios americana, of eastern North America, having fragrant brownish flowers and small edible tubers.
2. Any similar plant having underground tubers.
3. The nutlike tuber of such a plant, especially peanuts.
4. A plant which bears its nutlike seeds underground, such as a peanut or Bambara groundnut.

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See also

• earthnut
• tree nut

English

Etymology

From Middle English erthenote, from Old English eorþhnutu, from Proto-Germanic *erþ?hnuts; compare Icelandic jarðhneta, German Erdnuss.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???(?)?.n?t/
• (US)

Noun

earthnut (plural earthnuts)

1. Any of various roots, tubers, or pods that grow underground.
   1. A tuber belonging to the species Conopodium majus (syns. Bunium flexuosum, Conopodium denudatum), Bunium bulbocastanum (syn. Carum bulbocastanum), or Apios americana (syn. Apios tuberosa)

      Synonyms: earth chestnut, hawknut, pignut

   2. The dwarf ginseng: Panax trifolius
   3. Synonym of peanut (Arachis hypogaea)
   4. The underground tuber belonging to the genus Tuber; the truffle.

      Synonym: truffle

Related terms

• groundnut

Translations

See also

• tree nut

Anagrams

• heartnut