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    PEANUT VINE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (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 undergroundplay

    Synonyms:

    Arachis hypogaea; peanut; peanut vine

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    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))

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