peanut

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.

Pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms.

A young child who is small for his age.

Underground pod of the peanut vine.

Of little importance or influence or power; of minor status.

“peanut politicians”