ARACHIS HYPOGAEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Arachis hypogaea mean? 

• ARACHIS HYPOGAEA (noun)
  The noun ARACHIS HYPOGAEA has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: ARACHIS HYPOGAEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARACHIS HYPOGAEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Arachis hypogaea; peanut; peanut vine

Hypernyms ("Arachis hypogaea" is a kind of...):

legume; leguminous plant (an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae)

Meronyms (parts of "Arachis hypogaea"):

earthnut; goober; goober pea; groundnut; monkey nut; peanut (pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; 'groundnut' and 'monkey nut' are British terms)

peanut (underground pod of the peanut vine)

Holonyms ("Arachis hypogaea" is a member of...):

Arachis; genus Arachis (a genus of plants with pods that ripen underground (see peanut))

 Context examples 

Cultivated peanut, Arachis hypogaea, is an important grain legume and oilseed crop, with a total global production area of approximately 59 million acres.

(Peanut Genome Sequenced with Unprecedent Accuracy, U.S. Department of Agriculture)