What is the differents between a peanut and groundnut?
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