peanut vine

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peanut vine - 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

Arachis hypogaea, peanut

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

legume, leguminous plant - an erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae

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

peanut - underground pod of the peanut vine

References in periodicals archive ?

First, a flower on a peanut vine (see drawing 1, above) is pollinated by a bee.

Peanuts: you'll go nuts over these smooth and crunchy tidbits

Pitchforks were used to bring peanut vines to stack poles positioned in the field.

Peanuts in the Wiregrass: museum volunteers undertake harvest with vintage equipment

The first piece of equipment Bob recalls his grandfather using was an offset two-in-one plow used to cultivate peanut vines. "As a boy, before I was old enough to handle a horse or mule myself, I would just--barefooted--fall in behind my granddaddy when he was plowing that old two-in-one," Bob says.