How to Use groundnut in a Sentence
groundnut
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During lunch at a beachside resort, try out local specialties like groundnut stew and jollof rice.
—National Geographic, 12 June 2019
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The crops this summer include eggplant, tomatoes, onions, cluster beans, groundnuts and even cotton.
—Kamala Thiagarajan, NPR, 19 Apr. 2026
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Deposits include unique varieties of rice, black-eyed peas, and Bambara groundnut (a drought-tolerant crop).
—Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 1 Mar. 2018
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The leopards’ presence is welcomed for keeping neelgai antelope, wild boar, and chinkara (Indian gazelles) away from crops of cotton, maize, wheat, mustard, and groundnut.
—National Geographic, 22 Mar. 2019
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This flower-above-ground-then-burrow-underground-to-fruit trick is replicated by only one other plant in the world, the bambara groundnut, native to West Africa.
—Nicola Twilley, The Atlantic, 23 June 2017
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