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The peanut is a groundnut.

Summary :

1. Peanut is a type of groundnut; groundnut may refer to peanuts as well as specific kinds of roots and tubers

2. Peanut is specifically used as nutritional supplements and as peanut butter, while groundnut is especially used as cooking oil, which has nutritional value

3. The bambara groundnut ripens its circular shaped pods underground, while peanut matures underground as a cylindrical pod

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