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Noun ground nut has 3 senses
- groundnut, groundnut vine, Indian potato, potato bean, wild bean, Apios americana, Apios tuberosa - a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans
--1 is a kind of vine
--1 is a member of Apios, genus Apios
--1 has parts: groundnut, potato bean, wild bean
- groundnut, potato bean, wild bean - nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans
--2 is a kind of tuber
--2 is a part of
- peanut, earthnut, goober, goober pea, groundnut, monkey nut - pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms
--3 is a kind of edible nut
--3 is a part of peanut, peanut vine, Arachis hypogaea
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