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a bean cosplaying as a nut while quietly fueling rockets and ruining lunchboxes
means A small, oily edible seed that grows in pods underground on a legume plant, eaten roasted, salted, or ground into butter.
from Exactly what it says on the shell: a compound of 'pea' and 'nut,' coined because the seeds resemble peas while being eaten like nuts — though botanically it's neither, but a legume. The older name was 'groundnut,' a nod to its odd habit of ripening its pods beneath the soil. 'Pea' descends from Latin 'pisum' (by way of an old singular 'pease' that English mistook for a plural), and 'nut' comes from a long Germanic line, related to Old English 'hnutu.'
- not a nut
- botanically a legume, kin to peas and beans
- underground rebel
- flowers above, then buries its pods to ripen
- rocket fuel
- peanut oil can be processed into biodiesel
- george's encore
- Carver invented over 300 peanut uses
- explosive cousin
- glycerin from peanut oil helped make nitroglycerin
jimmy carter's peanut farm — former u.s. president owned and operated a 3,650-acre peanut farm in plains, georgia from 1953-1978
virginia-type peanuts — largest peanut variety grown commercially, accounting for about 60% of u.s. production, primarily in virginia and north carolina