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Definition of peanut noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

peanut

noun
peanut pronunciation English ˈpiːnʌt peanut pronunciation American ˈpiːnʌt
 
1 (British English also groundnut) [countable] a nut that grows underground in a thin shella packet of salted peanutspeanut oil2 peanuts [plural] (informal) a very small amount of moneyI won't work for peanuts.He gets paid peanuts for doing that job.