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单词 groundnut
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groundnutn.

Brit. /ˈɡraʊn(d)nʌt/, U.S. /ˈɡraʊn(d)ˌnət/, West African English /ɡrau(n)ˈnɔt/, /ɡraˈnɔt/
Etymology: Compare Dutch grondnoot , in sense 1.
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.
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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.
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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.].
attributive.1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 895 Ground-nut oil.1887 C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 54 The finest ground-nut oil is used as a substitute for and mixture with olive.1887 C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 57 The ground-nut industry.
3. The earth-nut ( Bunium flexuosum).
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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.
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