Peanut vs. Cashew — What's the Difference?

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.

The cashew tree (Anacardium occidentale) is a tropical evergreen tree that produces the cashew seed and the cashew apple accessory fruit. The tree can grow as high as 14 m (46 ft), but the dwarf cultivars, growing up to 6 m (20 ft), prove more profitable, with earlier maturity and greater yields.

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 tropical American evergreen tree (Anacardium occidentale) widely cultivated for its edible seeds.

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

The kidney-shaped seed of this tree.

A very small or inadequate sum of money

A tree, Anacardium occidentale, native to northeastern Brazil, now widely grown in tropical climates for its cashew nuts and cashew apples.

Small pieces of styrofoam used as packing material.

A cashew nut.

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 tree (Anacardium occidentale) of the same family which the sumac. It is native in tropical America, but is now naturalized in all tropical countries. Its fruit, a kidney-shaped nut, grows at the extremity of an edible, pear-shaped hypocarp, about three inches long.

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

The cashew nut.

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

Tropical American evergreen tree bearing kidney-shaped nuts that are edible only when roasted

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

Kidney-shaped nut edible only when roasted

A person who is regarded as insignificant.

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;