peanut

noun. a low-branching widely cultivated annual herb (Arachis hypogaea) of the legume family with showy yellow flowers having a peduncle which elongates and bends into the soil where the ovary ripens into a pod containing one to three oily edible seeds; also: its seed or seed-containing pod

noun. an insignificant or tiny person

noun. a trifling amount

adjective. insignificant, petty

• peanut politics