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  2. Peanut - Wikipedia

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    The peanut (Arachis hypogaea), also known as the groundnut, [2] goober (US), [3] goober pea, [4] pindar (US) [3] or monkey nut (UK), is a legume crop grown mainly for its edible seeds. It is widely grown in the tropics and subtropics by small and large commercial producers, both as grain legume [ 5 ] and as an oil crop. [ 6 ]

  3. Vigna subterranea - Wikipedia

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    The seeds will form pods encasing seeds just below the soil. The pods are round, wrinkled and each contains one or two seeds that are round, smooth and very hard when dried.The seeds may be cream colored, brown, red, mottled or black eyed and their size is about 8.5–15 mm × 6.5–10 mm × 5.5–9 mm. [ 19 ]

  4. Cowpea - Wikipedia

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    A seed can consist of 25% protein and has very low fat content. [79] Cowpea starch is digested more slowly than the starch from cereals, which is more beneficial to human health. [ 69 ] The grain is a rich source of folic acid , an important vitamin that helps prevent neural tube defects in unborn babies.

  5. Fabaceae - Wikipedia

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    Grain legumes are cultivated for their seeds, and are also called pulses. The seeds are used for human and animal consumption or for the production of oils for industrial uses. Grain legumes include both herbaceous plants like beans , lentils , lupins , peas and peanuts , [ 67 ] and trees such as carob , mesquite and tamarind .

  6. Plant taxonomy - Wikipedia

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    Plant taxonomy is the science that finds, identifies, describes, classifies, and names plants. It is one of the main branches of taxonomy (the science that finds, describes, classifies, and names living things).

  7. Groundnut - Wikipedia

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    Groundnut may refer to: Seeds that ripen underground, of the following plants, all in the Faboideae subfamily of the legumes: Arachis hypogaea, the peanut; Arachis villosulicarpa, a perennial peanut species; Vigna subterranea, the Bambara groundnut; Macrotyloma geocarpum, the Hausa groundnut; Roots and tubers:

  8. Apios americana - Wikipedia

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    Apios americana, sometimes called the American groundnut, potato bean, hopniss, Indian potato, hodoimo, America-hodoimo, cinnamon vine, or groundnut (not to be confused with other plants in the subfamily Faboideae sometimes known by that name) is a perennial vine that bears edible beans and large edible tubers.

  9. Cyperus rotundus - Wikipedia

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    Cyperus rotundus is a perennial plant, that may reach a height of up to 140 cm (55 in).The names "nut grass" and "nut sedge" – shared with the related species Cyperus esculentus – are derived from its tubers, that somewhat resemble nuts, although botanically they have nothing to do with nuts.