[pea.nut] n (1802) 1: a low-branching widely cultivated leguminous annual herb (Arachis hypogaea) 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
2: an insignificant or tiny person 3 pl: a trifling amount
[2]peanut adj (1836): insignificant, petty "~ politics"