groundnut

Meaning

1. A climbing vine, Apios americana, of eastern North America, having fragrant brownish flowers and small edible tubers.
2. Any similar plant having underground tubers.
3. The nutlike tuber of such a plant, especially peanuts.
4. A plant which bears its nutlike seeds underground, such as a peanut (Arachis hypogaea) or a Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea).

Synonyms

peanut

earthnut

goober

potato bean

wild bean

monkey nut

Indian potato

groundnut vine

Apios americana

goober pea

Apios tuberosa

pinda

legume

monkey-nut

nut

pea

peacan

Arachis hypogaea

peanut vine

jack nut

earth chestnut

bean

Translations

arachide

cacahuete

Erdnuss

maní

aardnoot

Erdnuß

cacahuète

pinda

cacahouète

Etymology

Cognate with Icelandic: jarðhneta

Cognate with German: Erdnuss

Cognate with Hungarian: földimogyoró

In summary

From ground + nut. Compare Icelandic jarðhneta, German Erdnuss (both cognate with earthnut) and Hungarian földimogyoró.