单词 | groundnut |
释义 | groundnutn. 1. One of the small farinaceous edible tubers of the wild bean ( Apios tuberosa), a climbing plant of North America; (also) the plant producing these. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > other root vegetables skirret1338 pease earthnut1548 skirret-root1565 rampion1573 Tragopogon1578 oca1604 tuckahoe1612 groundnut1636 sedge-root1648 breadroot1756 tannia1756 rush nut1783 wapato1796 cous1806 vegetable oyster1806 prairie turnip1811 prairie potato1828 murnong1836 Tartarian bread1836 biscuitroot1837 yam-bean1864 tiger-nut1887 wasabi1903 ramp1946 sunchoke1955 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > ground-nut or plant groundnut1636 1636 in M. A. Green Springfield, Mass. (1888) 12 They shall..have liberty to take Fish and Deer, groundnuts, walnuts, akornes. 1765 T. Hutchinson Hist. Colony Massachusets-Bay, 1628–91 (ed. 2) ii. 301 The Indians coold come at the ground-nuts, which seem to have been all their provision. 1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 257 I discovered the ground-nut (Apios tuberosa) on its string, the potato of the aborigines. 1865 F. Parkman Champlain vii, in Pioneers of France in New World 274 Biencourt and his followers were..digging ground-nuts. 2. The peanut or ground-pea ( Arachis hypogæa), largely cultivated in the West Indies and West Africa, the fruit of which is a pod ripening under ground. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible nuts or nut-trees > [noun] > peanut mani1604 pindar1684 earthnut1714 groundnut1740 ground-pea1796 peanut1802 goober1833 monkey nut1880 the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > nut > [noun] > peanut groundnut1740 peanut1802 monkey nut1880 1740 in Coll. Georgia Hist. Soc. I. 199 We have also..chincopin nuts..hickory and ground nuts. 1770 W. Watson in Philos. Trans. 1769 (Royal Soc.) 59 379 They..are the produce of a plant..much cultivated in the Southern colonies, and in our American sugar islands, where they are called ground nuts, or ground pease. 1775 B. Romans Conc. Nat. Hist. E. & W. Florida 131 The ground nut also introduced by the Blacks from Guinea, is next after this for its easy cultivation. 1863 R. F. Burton Wanderings W. Afr. I. 184 The commerce of the place consists principally of the ground nut [etc.]. 3. The earth-nut ( Bunium flexuosum). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > earth-nut earthnutOE earth chestnut1578 kipper-nut1597 pignuta1616 groundnut1653 gernut1691 fur-nut1804 yar-nut1828 1653 N. Culpeper Eng. Physitian Enlarged 64 They are called Earth-Nuts, Earth-Chestnuts, Ground-Nuts, [etc.]. 1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 331 The earth-nut, pig-nut, or ground-nut, as it is variously called. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1636 |
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