In article .com,
"Mike Lyle" writes:
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| Thanks, Charlie. I habitually call them "groundnuts" in an agricultural
| context, reserving "peanuts" for the human snack. I didn't know that
| was ambiguous -- though there was a clear hint in your information that
| this tuberous species doesn't bury seeds. Perhaps we should adopt
| "goober peas". (OT, I remember Bernard Levin calling Concorde "a flying
| Groundnut Scheme".)

That is the USA usage. The most common English names for Arachis hypogoea
were groundnut or monkey nut until the recent Americanisation of the UK.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.