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Maize vs Groundnut - What's the difference?

maize | groundnut |

As nouns the difference between maize and groundnut

is that maize is corn; a type of grain of the species Zea mays while groundnut is a climbing vine, species: Apios americana, of eastern North America, having fragrant brownish flowers and small edible tubers.

maize

English

(wikipedia maize) (Zea mays)

Noun

(-)
  • Corn; a type of grain of the species Zea mays .
  • *
    • A fundamental creative act of American man was the development of maize'. For it was ' maize that made possible and sustained the whole Peruvian civilization as well as Mexican and Central American ones. Exactly where it originated is not known, but corn was found in pre-Mayan graves dating to 3000 B.C.

    Synonyms

    * (Zea mays) corn (US English, Canadian English); green corn, Indian corn, sugar corn, sweet corn (-)

    Anagrams

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    groundnut

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A climbing vine, , of eastern North America, having fragrant brownish flowers and small edible tubers.
  • Any similar plant having underground tubers.
  • The nutlike tuber of such a plant; a peanut or (monkey nut).
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