peanut Definition

a low-branching widely cultivated annual herb (Arachis hypogaea) of the legume family with showy yellow flowers having a peduncle which elongates and bends into the soil where the ovary ripens into a pod containing one to three oily edible seeds; also : its seed or seed-containing pod

an insignificant or tiny person

a trifling amount

insignificant, petty

the upper balcony of a theater; also : a section of cheap seats in a theater or the group of spectators seated there

a group of critics or commentators likened to spectators in the cheap seats of a theater

a colorless to yellow fatty nondrying oil that is obtained from peanuts and is used chiefly as a salad oil, in margarine, in soap, and as a vehicle in pharmaceutical preparations and cosmetics

a creamy food made from peanuts

a chewy marshmallow candy that is shaped like a peanut shell, is typically orange in color, and has a banana flavor