peanut

1. A legume resembling a nut, the fruit of the plant Arachis hypogaea, native to South America.
2. A very small clam.
3. See peanuts (“very small amount”).

From pea + nut, perhaps a folk etymology of pinda, pinder (still found in Southern US dialects).

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