- peanut, peanut vine, Arachis hypogaea - 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
--1 is a kind of legume, leguminous plant
--1 is a member of Arachis, genus Arachis
--1 has parts:peanut, earthnut, goober, goober pea, groundnut, monkey nut; peanut