Goober vs. Peanut — What's the Difference?

See peanut.

The peanut, also known as the groundnut, goober (US), pindar (US) or monkey nut (UK), and taxonomically classified as Arachis hypogaea, is a legume crop grown mainly for its edible seeds. It is widely grown in the tropics and subtropics, being important to both small and large commercial producers.

A yokel; a bumpkin.

The oval seed of a tropical South American plant, often roasted and salted and eaten as a snack or used to make oil or animal feed

A foolish or silly person.

The plant of the pea family that bears peanuts, which develop in pods that ripen underground.

A gob of phlegm.

A very small or inadequate sum of money

A peanut.

Small pieces of styrofoam used as packing material.

A Georgian or North Carolinian, particularly one from the pine forests of the Sandhills region.

A prostrate southern Brazilian plant (Arachis hypogaea) widely cultivated in tropical and warm temperate regions, having yellow flowers on stalks that bend over so that the seed pods ripen underground.

A foolish, simple, or amusingly silly person.

The edible, nutlike, oily seed of this plant, used for food and as a source of oil. Also called regionally goober, goober pea.

To drool or dribble.

A peanut-shaped piece of polystyrene, used in cushioning items during shipment.

To drip or slather; to apply a gooey substance to a surface.

A small child. Often used as a term of affection.

A peanut.

A person who is regarded as insignificant.

Pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms

Peanuts(Informal) A very small amount of money; a trifling sum.

A legume resembling a nut, the fruit of the plant Arachis hypogaea.

(US) A very small clam.

See very small amount.

(transitive) To pull on somebody's tie as a prank, causing the knot to tighten.

The fruit of a trailing leguminous plant (Arachis hypogæa); also, the plant itself, which is widely cultivated for its fruit.

Underground pod of the peanut vine

Widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions; showy yellow flowers on stalks that bend over to the soil so that seed pods ripen underground

A young child who is small for his age

Pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms

Of little importance or influence or power; of minor status;