peanut

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun underground pod of the peanut vine
noun 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
noun a young child who is small for his age

From pea + nut, perhaps a folk etymology of pinda, pinder (still found in Southern US dialects).

The crunch of peanuts was unfailing. — The best short stories of 1917, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown
She's too busy thinking about peanuts. — From Place to Place, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
"Fer years," he said, "I been living on peanuts. — The Big Fix, George O. (George Oliver) Smith

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