Meaning & Definition of Peanut in English

1. Underground pod of the peanut vine

2. 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

3. A young child who is small for his age

4. Pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds

• `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are british terms

1. Of little importance or influence or power

• Of minor status

• "A minor, insignificant bureaucrat"

• "Peanut politicians"