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The peanut's botanically honest name: a nut that ripens underground like buried treasure.
means Another word for the peanut, a legume whose pods mature below the soil rather than on branches.
from English plainspeak from the 1600s, naming the plant for its odd habit of burying its own seedpods underground to ripen.
Not a nutIt's a legume, kin to beans and peas.
Self-burialFlowers dive into soil to fruit underground.
Global stapleStandard term across Africa, India, and Britain.