PEANUT VINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does peanut vine mean? 

• PEANUT VINE (noun)
  The noun PEANUT VINE 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: PEANUT VINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEANUT VINE (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 ("peanut vine" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "peanut vine"):

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 ("peanut vine" is a member of...):

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