groundnut
groundnut — 名詞
- groundnutsingular
- groundnutsplural
1. the small oval seed of a tropical legume plant, eaten as a snack or pressed for
花生
豆科植物的食用種子，又稱落花生
the small oval seed of a tropical legume plant, eaten as a snack or pressed for oil; mainly used as the British and agricultural name for what is everywhere called a peanut.
Farmers in northern Ghana sell sacks of groundnut at the weekly market.
迦納北部的農夫在每週的市集上整袋整袋地賣花生。
agricultural sense: bulk crop sold by the sack
Adina spread thick groundnut paste on warm bread for her children.
Adina 把厚厚一層花生醬抹在溫熱的麵包上，給孩子們吃。
compound: groundnut paste / butter
The cooks in the village fry chicken in fresh groundnut oil every Sunday.
村裡的廚師每個星期天都用新鮮的花生油炸雞肉。
Heavy rain ruined half of the groundnut harvest in the Senegal River valley last year.
去年大雨毀了塞內加爾河谷一半的花生收成。
Kabir poured a handful of roasted groundnut into a small clay bowl on the tea tray.
Kabir 在茶盤上的小陶碗裡倒了一把烤花生。
- peanut
the everyday word in American English and in most informal contexts worldwide
- monkey nut
British informal name, usually for the whole nut still in its shell
- earthnut
older British name; now mostly historical or regional
文法句型
groundnut + noun (oil, butter, harvest)
用法筆記
Common in British, South Asian, and West African English, and in agricultural or scientific contexts everywhere. American everyday speech almost always uses 'peanut' instead.
常見錯誤
2. a North American climbing plant of the pea family whose small underground swelli
美洲土圞兒
北美原生豆科藤蔓的可食用塊根
a North American climbing plant of the pea family whose small underground swellings can be cooked and eaten, or the swelling itself; gathered as food long before Europeans arrived and still occasionally foraged today.
Along the riverbank, Caleb showed the students how to dig up a groundnut without breaking the vine.
在河岸邊，Caleb 教學生怎麼把美洲土圞兒挖出來而不弄斷藤蔓。
the tuber sense, in a foraging scene
Wampanoag families boiled groundnut with fish and corn during the long winter months.
萬帕諾亞格人家庭在漫長的冬天會把美洲土圞兒和魚、玉米一起煮。
historical food use of the tuber
The groundnut grows wild beside damp woods from Maine down to northern Florida.
從緬因州一路到佛羅里達州北部，潮濕林地旁都長著野生的美洲土圞兒。
Imani roasted a few groundnut tubers in the ashes of the campfire that evening.
那天傍晚 Imani 把幾顆美洲土圞兒的塊根埋進營火灰燼裡烤熟。
Botany students at the field station learned to tell the groundnut from other twining vines by its purple-brown flowers.
野外研究站的植物學學生學會用紫褐色的花朵把美洲土圞兒和其他纏繞藤蔓區分開來。
- Indian potato
older North American name referring to the same tuber
- hopniss
name used by some Indigenous and foraging communities
- Apios americana
the scientific name, used in botany and gardening texts
文法句型
the groundnut + verb (refers to the plant or its tuber)
用法筆記
Distinguish from sense 1: this sense refers to a wild North American vine and its starchy underground tuber, not the peanut crop. Often written 'American groundnut' or labelled with the Latin name 'Apios americana' to avoid confusion with the peanut sense.