hypogaea,  Tanay

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On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 6:33 PM, tanay bose <[email protected]> wrote:

> Right You are Selvalakshmi Ji ... I am adding the reference you have
> hopefully used http://www.billcasselman.com/unpub_two/peanut.htm it will
> help other members to elaborately know about the facts of peanut.
>
> Tanay
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> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:29 PM, nivi tha <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Dear all,
>> Thank you so much for your interest. It making me too learn more..
>>
>> Today's Etymology:
>>
>> *Arachis hypogea*
>>
>> *Arachis* was the name, among the ancient Greeks, of some leguminous
>> weed, not the peanut. The precise ancient meaning of *arachis* is unknown
>> but the components of the word suggest that *arachis* may have been
>> composed of:
>> /a/ Greek ‘not’ + rachis Greek ‘spine, backbone
>>
>> The species epithet hypogea refers to underground, subterranean.
>>
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