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peanut

 noun
     
peanut
Related topics: Food Dish
pea‧nut
1 [countable]DFF a pale brown nut in a thin shell which grows under the ground [= groundnut]:
a packet of roasted peanuts
2

peanuts

informal a very small amount of money:
The hotel workers get paid peanuts.
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