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Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP/Getty Images A ground-nut vendor waited for customers during a festival in Bangalore, India, November 29, 2010.

India This Week 2010

Then we dropped off MKB's dad and I went home and fed the hounds and the three of us met at KP's and we ate ground-nut stew that KP had cooked and fingerling zuchinnis that I supplied and drank beer.

Weekend Pursuits intertext 2006

We saw no palm-oil-trees, the oil which is occasionally exported being from the ground-nut.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

Digging one day for fishworms, I discovered the ground-nut (Apios tuberosa) on its string, the potato of the aborigines, a sort of fabulous fruit, which I had begun to doubt if I had ever dug and eaten in childhood, as I had told, and had not dreamed it.

Walden 2004

The ground-nut or peanut (Arachis hypogaea), the “pindar” of the United

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

The staple of commerce is now the nguba, or ground-nut

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

The second, and the more important, is the arachis, or ground-nut, which flourishes throughout the highlands of the interior, and which, at the time of my visit, was beginning to pay.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

Palm and ground-nut oil enable the agents only to buy provisions; the trade is capable of infinite expansion, but it requires time — as yet it supports only the two non-slaving houses,

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

The NCEC estimates a ground-nut harvest this year of 75000 tons

ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

Price and not quality is the object, so much so that when olive oil is dear, cotton-seed, ground-nut, and other oils are substituted, which bear the same relation to good olive oil that butterine and similar preparations do to real butter.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884 Various