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ˈearth-nut
Also 6 ernut(e.
1. The roundish tuber of an umbelliferous plant (Bunium flexuosum, including B. Bulbocastanum), called also earth-chestnut and pig-nut.
875Charter in Cod. Dipl. III. 399 (Bosw.) Of ðam cumbe in eorþnutena þorn. 1551Turner Herbal i. D iij b, Apios is called also Chamebalanos in greke..and the same semeth to me to be called in Englishe, an ernut, or an erthnut. 1597Gerard Herbal ii. ccccxxxi. (1633) 1064 Earth nut, Earth chest nut, or Kipper nut. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. II. s.v. Sallet, Earth-Nuts, when the Rind is pared off, are eaten raw by Country People. 1784Cowper Task v. 90 Daws forsake the fields, Where neither grub..nor earth-nut..Repays their labour. 1879Jefferies Wild Life in S.C. 331 The earth-nut, pig-nut, or ground-nut, as it is variously called.
2. Applied variously to other plants, as the truffle (Tuber), the arachis, the Œnanthe pimpinelloides, and the Heath Pea (Lathyrus macrorrhizus).
1548Turner Names of Herbes (1881) 17 Astragalus..may be called in english peaserthnut. 1644Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 83 A dish of Truffles, which is a certain earth-nut. 1713Petiver in Phil. Trans. XXVIII. 62 Four leaved Earth-Nut. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict., Gesse, a plant of which there are two sorts, one..cultivated..and the other the wild one in Latin Chamælalanus, called by some Earth-Nut. a1854Phytologist III. 260 (Britten) Œnanthe pimpinelloides, L. The children eat the tubercles under the name of earth-nuts. |