peanut

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peanut

A child eats a peanut butter sandwich at the kitchen table.

Definition

  1. Noun:

    • A type of legume plant: A widely cultivated plant (Arachis hypogaea) with showy yellow flowers. After pollination, the flower stalk bends down and pushes the developing pod underground where it matures.
    • The edible seed of this plant: The small, oval, typically two-seeded pod (nut) that grows underground. It is often roasted, salted, or processed into butter or oil.
    • (Informal) A very small or insignificant person or thing: Used to describe someone or something considered unimportant or trivial.
    • (Informal, often plural) A very small amount of money: A trivial sum.

  2. Adjective:

    • Of little importance or value: Insignificant, petty, or minor.
Usage and Examples
  • Noun (Plant/Seed):
    • Farmers grow peanut crops in warm climates.
    • She spread peanut butter on her toast.
    • He bought a bag of salted peanuts.
  • Noun (Insignificant thing/person):
    • The salary increase was just peanuts compared to the cost of living.
    • He dismissed his critics as a bunch of peanuts.
  • Adjective:
    • They were arguing over peanut issues while ignoring the major crisis.
    • He's just a peanut politician with no real influence.
Advanced Usage
  • "To work for peanuts": To work for a very low salary.
    • She has a degree in engineering, but she's working for peanuts at that startup.
  • "Peanut gallery": (Originally U.S.) Refers to the cheapest seats in a theater, often in a balcony. Now used informally to describe people who offer unsolicited, often critical, opinions from the sidelines.
    • Ignore the comments from the peanut gallery; they don't know what they're talking about.
Variants and Related Words
  • Peanut butter (n): A paste made from ground, roasted peanuts.
    • A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is a classic lunch.
  • Peanut oil (n): An oil pressed from peanuts, used in cooking.
  • Peanuty (adj): Having the taste or aroma of peanuts.
    • The sauce had a rich, peanuty flavor.
Synonyms
  • Noun (seed): Groundnut, goober (U.S. informal), monkey nut (British).
  • Noun (trivial amount): Pittance, trifle, chicken feed (informal).
  • Adjective: Insignificant, trivial, minor, petty, paltry.
Phrasal Verbs / Common Phrases

(No common phrasal verbs exist for "peanut". See idioms and phrases in "Advanced Usage".)

Related Idioms
  • "In a nutshell": Concisely; in a few words. (Note: This idiom uses "nut," not specifically "peanut," but is a common nut-related phrase).
    • To put it in a nutshell, the project failed due to poor planning.
peanut

A child eats a peanut butter sandwich at the kitchen table.

Adjective
  1. of little importance or influence or power; of minor status
    • a minor, insignificant bureaucrat
    • peanut politicians
Noun
  1. pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms
  2. a young child who is small for his age
  3. widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions; showy yellow flowers on stalks that bend over to the soil so that seed pods ripen underground
  4. underground pod of the peanut vine

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