Subscriber login
Password
Forgot your password?
Library card login
Login with Shibboleth® »
Login with Athens »
Close menu
Oxford Dictionaries Online
The world's most trusted dictionaries
About
Subscriber services
What's new
Contact us
Help
Subscribe now
Already a subscriber or in a subscribing organization?
Login
Dictionary
Other language resources
US English
World English
Dictionary
Better writing
World of words
Puzzles and games
For children and schools
For learners of English
Email
Cite
earthnut
(earth|nut)
Pronunciation:
/ˈəːθnʌt/
noun
1
a Eurasian plant of the parsley family, which has an edible roundish tuber and is found in woodland and acid pasture.
Also called
pignut
,
hognut
.
Conopodium majus
, family
Umbelliferae
the almond-flavoured tuber of the earthnut.
2
British
another term for
peanut
.
More words in this category
banksia rose
chicle
crape myrtle
grains of Paradise
greasewood
hickory
Leyland cypress
loblolly
love-lies-bleeding
medlar
orris
pineapple weed
Port Jackson willow
purslane
sweet cicely
thorn
tussock
yellow flag
Nearby Words
earth science
earth station
earth tone
earth-shattering
earthbound
earthen
earthenware
earthling
earthly
earthnut
earthquake
earthshine
earthstar
earthward
earthwork
earthworm
earthy
earwax
earwig