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ground nut

ground nut is the alternative form of groundnut.

Meaning of groundnut

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 (Arachis hypogaea) or a Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea).

Forms of ground nut

pluralground nuts

Questions about ground nut

What is ground nut the alternative form of?
Ground nut is the alternative form of groundnut.

Words near ground nut in the dictionary

  1. ground mist
  2. ground mists
  3. ground mobile force
  4. ground mobile forces
  5. ground moraine
  6. ground nut
  7. ground nuts
  8. ground one's gears
  9. ground out
  10. ground outs
  11. ground pangolin

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