What are peanuts in Jamaican?

Answer 1

The peanut, or groundnut (Arachis hypoglycemia), is a species in the legume "bean" family (Fabricate). The cultivated peanut was likely first domesticated in the valleys of the Paraguay and Parana rivers in the Charo region of Paraguay and Bolivia.[1] It is an annual herbaceous plant growing 30 to 50 cm (0.98 to 1.6 ft) tall. The leaves are opposite, pinnate with four leaflets (two opposite pairs; no terminal leaflet), each leaflet 1 to 7 cm (⅜ to 2¾ in) long and 1 to 3 cm (⅜ to 1 inch) broad. The flowers are a typical pea flower in shape, 2 to 4 cm (¾ to 1½ in) across, yellow with reddish veining. After pollination, the fruit develops into a legume 3 to 7 cm (1.2 to 2.8 in) long, containing 1 to 4 seeds, which forces its way underground to mature. Hypoglycemia means "under the earth."

Peanuts are known by many local names, including earth nuts, ground nuts, goober peas, monkey nuts, pygmy nuts and pig nuts. The term "Monkey nut" is often used to mean the entire pod.[2] (The terms earth nut, groundnut and pig nut can also refer to Conopodium majus or to tubers of the Biennium family.)