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‘taxonomical classification’ –>
*arachis hypogaea*
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*AKA* –>
“groundnut”
“goober”
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“the stuff of legend!*
*what dreams are made of*
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*the peanut is a ‘legume crop’ grown mainly for its ‘edible seeds’*
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(it is widely grown in the ‘tropics’ + ‘sub-tropics’, being important to both ‘small’ + ‘large’ commercial producers)
(it is classified as both a ‘grain legume’ and (because of its high ‘oil content’) an ‘oil crop’)
(‘world annual production’ of ‘shelled peanuts’ was ’42 million tonnes’ in ‘2014’)
(atypically among crop plants, peanut pods develop underground rather than aboveground)
(it is this characteristic that the botanist Linnaeus used to assign the specific name hypogaea, which means “under the earth”)
(as a ‘legume, the peanut belongs to the botanical family ‘fabaceae’)
(this is also known as Leguminosae,
(and commonly known as the bean, or pea, family)
(like most other legumes, peanuts harbor symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria in root nodules)
(this capacity to fix nitrogen means peanuts require less nitrogen-containing fertilizer and improve soil fertility, making them valuable in crop rotations)
(peanuts are similar in taste and nutritional profile to tree nuts such as walnuts and almonds, and are often served in similar ways in Western cuisines)
(the botanical definition of a “nut” is a ‘fruit’ whose ‘ovary wall’ becomes ‘very hard’ at ‘maturity’)
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(using this criterion, the peanut is not a ‘true nut’, but rather a ‘legume’)
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*however, for ‘culinary purposes’ and in ‘common english language usage’, ‘peanuts’ are usually referred to as ‘nuts’*
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