Definition of Earthnuts

1. Noun. (plural of earthnut) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Earthnuts

1. earthnut [n] - See also: earthnut

Lexicographical Neighbors of Earthnuts

earthlinesses
earthling
earthlings
earthlit
earthly
earthly concern
earthmad
earthman
earthmen
earthmover
earthmovers
earthmoving
earthmovings
earthnut
earthnut pea
earthnuts (current term)
earthpea
earthpeas
earthpig
earthquake
earthquake engineering
earthquake protector
earthquake protectors
earthquakes
earthrise
earthrises
earths
earthset
earthsets
earthshaker

Literary usage of Earthnuts

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Gazetteer of Upper Burma and the Shan States by James George Scott, John Percy Hardiman (1901)
"In the belt lying above the paddy-land and under the hills bounding the valley earthnuts are the principal crop. The highest yield in good years is a ..."

2. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1903)
"The production of earthnuts in 1900 was 140000 tons. Coconuts, kola, rubber, gums, and castor-oil are ... earthnuts, gums, and rubber are the chief exports. ..."

3. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"earthnuts, which form at present the principal export of Senegal, ... earthnuts form over one-half of the exports, and gum and rubber over one-tenth. ..."

4. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1858)
"... earthnuts." The latter appellation seems to indicate in what estimation the plant was then held ; it was regarded as a mere curiosity, with a " tuberous ..."

5. Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency by Bombay (India : Presidency), Bombay (India : State), Bombay (Presidency), India (1885)
"The Vanis and Telia buy from the growers for cash and send to Chiplun raw sugar or gul, turmeric, chillies, earthnuts, tobacco, and oil, and in exchange ..."

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