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Webster 1913 Edition

Earthnut

Earth′nutˊ

,
Noun.
(Bot.)
A name given to various roots, tubers, or pods grown under or on the ground
; as to:
(a)
The esculent tubers of the umbelliferous plants
Bunium flexuosum
and
Carum Bulbocastanum
.
(b)
The peanut. See
Peanut
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Earthnut

EARTH'NUT

,
Noun.
The groundnut, or root of the Arachis; a small round bulb or knob, like a nut. This root or bulb is formed from the germen, which becomes a pod and is thrust into the ground by a natural motion of the stalk.
It is properly the fruit of the plant, and differs from other fruit only in the circumstance of ripening in the earth.

EARTH'NUT

,
Noun.
The pignut, or bunium; a globular root, somewhat resembling in taste a chestnut, whence it is called bulbocastanum.

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