Webster's English Dictionary

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peanut

1. pea.nut \'pe--(.)n*t\ n 1a: a low-branching widely cultivated leguminous 
   annual herb (Arachis hy pogaea) with showy yellow flowers having a peduncle 
   which elongates and bends into the soil where the ovary ripens into a pod 
   containing one to three oily edible seeds 1b: the seed or seed-containing 
   pod of the peanut  2: an insignificant or tiny person  pl  3: a trifling 
   amount 
2. peanut aj : INSIGNIFICANT, PETTY {~ politics}