Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small genus of leguminous plants, natives of Brazil.
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- noun a genus of plants with pods that ripen underground (see peanut)
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Examples
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If you choose anything besides 100 percent lanolin cream, read the label carefully and strictly avoid arachis oil, which is peanut oil.
Baby Bites Bridget Swinney 2007
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If you choose anything besides 100 percent lanolin cream, read the label carefully and strictly avoid arachis oil, which is peanut oil.
Baby Bites Bridget Swinney 2007
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This contrivance is far simpler than a dip-candle, the arachis is broken off as it chars, and, when the lamp dims, turning it upside down causes a fresh flow of oil.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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Pedras Negras de Pungo Andongo,26 consists of hides, cattle tame and wild (cefos); saltpetre washed from earth in sieves, mucocote or gum anime (copal), said by Lopes de Lima to be found in all the forests of Pungo Andongo; wax, white and yellow; oil of the dendêm (Elaïs Guineënsis) and mandobim, here called ginguba (arachis); mats, manioc-flour, and sometimes an ivory.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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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
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Intercropping of rainfed groundnut (arachis hypogaea) with annual oilseed crops under different planting patterns. 38.
1. Green manure crops in irrigated and rainfed lowland rice-based cropping systems in south Asia. 1992
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Intercropping of rainfed groundnut (arachis hypogaea) with annual oilseed crops under different planting patterns.
1. Green manure crops in irrigated and rainfed lowland rice-based cropping systems in south Asia. 1992
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Intercropping studies in peanut (arachis hypogaea l.).
1. Green manure crops in irrigated and rainfed lowland rice-based cropping systems in south Asia. 1992
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Intercropping studies in peanut (arachis hypogaea l.) .37.
1. Green manure crops in irrigated and rainfed lowland rice-based cropping systems in south Asia. 1992
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Peanut Rust (Puccinia arachis): This disease is presently confined to Latin America and the Caribbean.
Chapter 10 1981
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