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Definition of peanut in English: peanutnoun ˈpiːnʌtˈpinət 1The oval seed of a tropical South American plant, often roasted and salted and eaten as a snack or used to make oil or animal feed. 花生米 a bag of dry-roasted peanuts Example sentencesExamples - That's just 22 almonds, three tablespoons of cashews, 28 peanuts, 47 pistachios, or 14 walnut halves.
- They are also found in nuts like peanuts, walnuts, cashews as well as in seeds and fish.
- To look after them properly, as instructed by the experts, I have to feed them hazelnuts, sunflower seeds and unsalted peanuts.
- How she loved to crunch them; dry roasted peanuts, macadamias, cashews, pistachios, walnuts and Brazils.
- The most common foods people are allergic to include: peanuts; walnuts; pecans or almonds; and wheat and gluten.
- Sauces may contain okra, tomatoes, pumpkin seeds, peanuts, eggplant, peppers, and other vegetables.
- The fresh peanuts are boiled in salt water and eaten warm.
- This resulted in an oversupply of peanuts, soybeans, pecans, and sweet potatoes.
- There were almonds, peanuts, cashews, hazelnuts, pecans and Brazil nuts.
- Drizzle with sesame oil, and scatter with shredded ginger, spring onions, salted peanuts and coriander.
- Sprinkle with dry-roasted peanuts to add protein and fiber.
- All these foods had peanuts or peanut oil hidden inside.
- Milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, soy, wheat, peanuts, and tree nuts cause most reactions.
- In western countries they are most familiar as roasted or salted peanuts, or in peanut butter or incorporated in confectionery.
- Rich in essential fatty acids and protein, it also contains organic dry roasted Valencia peanuts and sea salt.
- Good food sources include broccoli, peanuts, pumpkin seeds and spinach.
- Birds that are fed diets with large proportions of sunflower seeds, peanuts and walnuts are often prone to obesity.
- You can add peanuts or any other nuts if you like.
- Garnish the plate with the almond tofu and crushed honey roasted peanuts.
- Children pace up and down the platform selling roasted peanuts, fried snacks, and baskets of sweet bananas.
2The plant of the pea family that bears peanuts, which develop in pods that ripen underground. Arachis hypogaea, family Leguminosae Example sentencesExamples - He encouraged farmers to try new crops, like peanuts, cowpeas and sweet potatoes, and to try new rotations, better cultural practices and more appropriate machinery.
- In an intensely managed, year-round vegetable garden, plant peanuts after winter greens such as turnips or kale.
- The fields I had once planted with potato and peanuts now were home to groves of cherry trees a foot in diameter.
- Yucca, plantain, peanuts, sweet potatoes, and sugarcane are grown, as well as medicinal herbs.
- They grow several staple crops, including manioc root, sweet potatoes, sugar cane, peanuts, and plantains.
3peanutsinformal A very small or inadequate sum of money. 他付很少一点钱。 Example sentencesExamples - Harper's gas tax plan will cost peanuts and save Canadians pennies but it's something everyone can relate to with soaring gas prices.
- Many people quit their day jobs in hopes of pursuing a career in literature only to find themselves living off peanuts.
- In Indonesia multinational companies pay workers peanuts and export into Australia without having to pay any tariffs.
- This is where the inflation played a role: by the time he got back from Siberia, his debts were worth peanuts, as was the cash he'd paid out to the oil drillers.
- For the European Union, for example, a few tens of millions of dollars is peanuts.
- Given today's exceptionally low long-term interest rates, the annual cost would be, well, peanuts.
- Even if he has the funding he claims, it's peanuts.
- Her first car would have cost less than £200 new, and in contrast with today's prices, petrol cost peanuts.
- These corruption charges amount to an amount of money that's peanuts compared to the corruption that went on before him.
- The sum was probably peanuts.
- As much as seven thousand dollars is for a broke student, it's peanuts in the film world.
- Whatever the extra cost on top of the original £4.1 million budget, it would be money worth spending and peanuts compared to the potential cost to the York economy of nine more months of traffic chaos.
- Out-of-date film is sold for peanuts, then resold to some little shops for a few pence.
- But while other favourites Macedonia, Georgia and Bolivia, are pulling in the money, it's peanuts compared with Miss Ireland, he said.
- ‘Compared to the time the programme saves, the price is peanuts,’ said Mr Seavers.
Synonyms very small sum, pittance, trifle, trifling sum, drop in the ocean, insignificant sum, derisory sum, paltry sum 4peanutsSmall pieces of styrofoam used as packing material. （用作包装材料的）小片聚苯乙烯泡沫塑料 Example sentencesExamples - The big shopping services also create a new and significant waste stream of cardboard boxes and styrofoam packing peanuts.
- Giggling with delight, he fished through the styrofoam peanuts and retrieved a length of silk, folded about three inches wide and almost two feet long, then tied with a ribbon.
- My things were still enclosed in hundreds of packing boxes, and I eyed the Styrofoam peanuts peeking out of them with happiness.
- I tore it open, burdened only by the prospect of having to dig through two solid inches of those awful Styrofoam peanuts to reach my treasure.
- Unfortunately, this time the bin full of packing peanuts was not there anymore, and I suffered some major trauma to my head, torso, spine, and limbs.
Definition of peanut in US English: peanutnounˈpēnətˈpinət 1The oval seed of a South American plant, widely roasted and salted and eaten as a snack. 花生米 Example sentencesExamples - There were almonds, peanuts, cashews, hazelnuts, pecans and Brazil nuts.
- Rich in essential fatty acids and protein, it also contains organic dry roasted Valencia peanuts and sea salt.
- The fresh peanuts are boiled in salt water and eaten warm.
- This resulted in an oversupply of peanuts, soybeans, pecans, and sweet potatoes.
- Children pace up and down the platform selling roasted peanuts, fried snacks, and baskets of sweet bananas.
- They are also found in nuts like peanuts, walnuts, cashews as well as in seeds and fish.
- You can add peanuts or any other nuts if you like.
- Sprinkle with dry-roasted peanuts to add protein and fiber.
- Garnish the plate with the almond tofu and crushed honey roasted peanuts.
- Milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, soy, wheat, peanuts, and tree nuts cause most reactions.
- Sauces may contain okra, tomatoes, pumpkin seeds, peanuts, eggplant, peppers, and other vegetables.
- In western countries they are most familiar as roasted or salted peanuts, or in peanut butter or incorporated in confectionery.
- The most common foods people are allergic to include: peanuts; walnuts; pecans or almonds; and wheat and gluten.
- How she loved to crunch them; dry roasted peanuts, macadamias, cashews, pistachios, walnuts and Brazils.
- All these foods had peanuts or peanut oil hidden inside.
- That's just 22 almonds, three tablespoons of cashews, 28 peanuts, 47 pistachios, or 14 walnut halves.
- Drizzle with sesame oil, and scatter with shredded ginger, spring onions, salted peanuts and coriander.
- Birds that are fed diets with large proportions of sunflower seeds, peanuts and walnuts are often prone to obesity.
- Good food sources include broccoli, peanuts, pumpkin seeds and spinach.
- To look after them properly, as instructed by the experts, I have to feed them hazelnuts, sunflower seeds and unsalted peanuts.
- 1.1US A small person (often used as a term of endearment).
Example sentencesExamples - ‘Here you go, peanut,’ Adam handed them to his daughter.
- ‘Oh, peanut, I'm so sorry,’ he told her, kissing her forehead.
- He finally looked up at me and smiled, ‘Hey peanut.’
2The plant of the pea family that bears the peanut, which develops in pods that ripen underground. It is widely cultivated, especially in the southern US, and large quantities are used to make oil or animal feed. 花生，落花生 Arachis hypogaea, family Leguminosae Example sentencesExamples - They grow several staple crops, including manioc root, sweet potatoes, sugar cane, peanuts, and plantains.
- In an intensely managed, year-round vegetable garden, plant peanuts after winter greens such as turnips or kale.
- Yucca, plantain, peanuts, sweet potatoes, and sugarcane are grown, as well as medicinal herbs.
- He encouraged farmers to try new crops, like peanuts, cowpeas and sweet potatoes, and to try new rotations, better cultural practices and more appropriate machinery.
- The fields I had once planted with potato and peanuts now were home to groves of cherry trees a foot in diameter.
3peanutsinformal A paltry thing or amount, especially a very small amount of money. 〈非正式〉无甚价值之物；微小的量（尤指很少量的钱） 他付很少一点钱。 Example sentencesExamples - This is where the inflation played a role: by the time he got back from Siberia, his debts were worth peanuts, as was the cash he'd paid out to the oil drillers.
- Whatever the extra cost on top of the original £4.1 million budget, it would be money worth spending and peanuts compared to the potential cost to the York economy of nine more months of traffic chaos.
- The sum was probably peanuts.
- Given today's exceptionally low long-term interest rates, the annual cost would be, well, peanuts.
- But while other favourites Macedonia, Georgia and Bolivia, are pulling in the money, it's peanuts compared with Miss Ireland, he said.
- Her first car would have cost less than £200 new, and in contrast with today's prices, petrol cost peanuts.
- Harper's gas tax plan will cost peanuts and save Canadians pennies but it's something everyone can relate to with soaring gas prices.
- As much as seven thousand dollars is for a broke student, it's peanuts in the film world.
- In Indonesia multinational companies pay workers peanuts and export into Australia without having to pay any tariffs.
- Out-of-date film is sold for peanuts, then resold to some little shops for a few pence.
- Even if he has the funding he claims, it's peanuts.
- For the European Union, for example, a few tens of millions of dollars is peanuts.
- Many people quit their day jobs in hopes of pursuing a career in literature only to find themselves living off peanuts.
- ‘Compared to the time the programme saves, the price is peanuts,’ said Mr Seavers.
- These corruption charges amount to an amount of money that's peanuts compared to the corruption that went on before him.
Synonyms very small sum, pittance, trifle, trifling sum, drop in the ocean, insignificant sum, derisory sum, paltry sum - 3.1US A small person (often used as a term of endearment).
4peanutsSmall pieces of Styrofoam used for packing material. （用作包装材料的）小片聚苯乙烯泡沫塑料 Example sentencesExamples - I tore it open, burdened only by the prospect of having to dig through two solid inches of those awful Styrofoam peanuts to reach my treasure.
- Giggling with delight, he fished through the styrofoam peanuts and retrieved a length of silk, folded about three inches wide and almost two feet long, then tied with a ribbon.
- Unfortunately, this time the bin full of packing peanuts was not there anymore, and I suffered some major trauma to my head, torso, spine, and limbs.
- My things were still enclosed in hundreds of packing boxes, and I eyed the Styrofoam peanuts peeking out of them with happiness.
- The big shopping services also create a new and significant waste stream of cardboard boxes and styrofoam packing peanuts.
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