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groundnut

groundnut noun: a climbing vine, Apios americana, of eastern North America, having fragrant brownish flowers and small edible tubers.

groundnut: a climbing vine, Apios americana, of eastern North America, having fragrant brownish flowers and...
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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).

groundnut meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Telugu and Malayalam

groundnut in Tamil

Apios americana
நிலக்கடலை nilakkaṭalai, வேர்க்கடலை vērkkaṭalai

groundnut in Marathi

groundnut, peanut; Arachis hypogaea
भुईमूग bhuīmūg

groundnut in Telugu

groundnut, peanut
వేరుసెనగ vērusenaga, పల్లీ pallī, ఇలాతికాయ ilātikāya, బుడ్డ buḍḍa

groundnut in Malayalam

Apios americana
നിലക്കടല nilakkaṭala
More languagesFewer languages
groundnut in Kannada
ನೆಲಕಡಲೆ, ನೆಲಗಡಲೆ, ಕಡಲೆಕಾಯಿ, ಬೊಮ್ಮುಕಾಯಿ

Forms of groundnut

pluralgroundnuts
alternative formground nut

Origin of groundnut

From ground + nut. Compare Icelandic jarðhneta, German Erdnuss (both cognate with earthnut) and Hungarian földimogyoró.

Words formed from groundnut

Phrases with groundnut

Questions about groundnut

What does groundnut mean?
Groundnut means a climbing vine, Apios americana, of eastern North America, having fragrant brownish flowers and small edible tubers.
What is groundnut in Tamil?
Groundnut in Tamil is நிலக்கடலை (nilakkaṭalai), வேர்க்கடலை (vērkkaṭalai). See Groundnut meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is groundnut?
Groundnut is a noun.
What is the plural of groundnut?
The plural of groundnut is groundnuts.

Words near groundnut in the dictionary

  1. groundmass
  2. groundmasses
  3. groundmen
  4. groundmist
  5. groundmists
  6. groundnut
  7. groundnuts
  8. groundout
  9. groundouts
  10. groundpear
  11. groundpecker

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: groundnut (page history and authors); भुईमूग (Marathi) (page history and authors); ఇలాతికాయ (Telugu) (page history and authors); groundnut (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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