SC - Re: speaking of peanuts...

[david friedman]

The OED gives two definitions for "groundnut," of which the second is 
the peanut. The first is some sort of North American plant--perhaps 
the same one that is in Gerard.

>Gerard lists a Pease Earth-Nut, that obviously isn't a peanut based on the
>illustration and the fact that the pods ripen above ground.  It looks more
>like a vetch with small edible tubers.
>
>Pease Earth-nut pages 1236-1237.
>
>"Terraeglandes. Of Pease Earth-Nut.
>The Nuts of this Pease being boiled and eaten, are hardlier digested than
>be either Turneps or Parsneps, yet do they nourish no
>lesse than the Parsneps: they are not so windie as they, they doe more
>slowly passe through the belly, by reason of their binding
>qualitie, and being eaten raw they be yet harder of digestion, and do
>hardlier and slowlier descend."
>
>HTH,
>
>Cindy
>
>
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