In the 18th century, the Swedish government made coffee and its paraphernalia (including cups and dishes) illegal for its supposed ties to rebellious sentiment.
GROUNDNUT
peanut, earthnut, goober, goober pea, groundnut, monkey nut
(noun) pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; ‘groundnut’ and ‘monkey nut’ are British terms
groundnut, potato bean, wild bean
(noun) nutlike tuber; important food of Native Americans
groundnut, groundnut vine, Indian potato, potato bean, wild bean, Apios americana, Apios tuberosa
(noun) a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
groundnut (plural groundnuts)
A climbing vine, Apios americana, 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, especially peanuts.
A plant which bears its nutlike seeds underground, such as a peanut or Bambara groundnut.
Source: Wiktionary
Ground"nut`, n. (Bot.) (a) The fruit of the Arachis hypogæa (native country uncertain); the peanut; the earthnut. (b) A leguminous, twining plant (Apios tuberosa), producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste. (c) The dwarf ginseng (Aralia trifolia). [U. S.] Gray. (d) A European plant of the genus Bunium (B. flexuosum) having an edible root of a globular shape aud sweet, aromatic taste; -- called also earthnut, earth chestnut, hawknut, and pignut.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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COWBERRY
(noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries
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