Peanut
Peanut names a plant in the legume family and its pod or edible seed. The dictionary also records a figurative use for a very small person. The food reference and figurative size association are separate senses; neither establishes a cat’s actual size.
- Meaning
- The peanut plant, its pod or edible seed
- Name or word origin
- English word name
Sources and meaning notes
The botanical/food sense is stated precisely rather than classifying every edible seed as a botanical nut.
- Merriam-Webster: peanut The cited English dictionary senses; not a claim that every pet with this name was named for that sense
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Catalog grouping: Unisex. This is a browsing label and does not restrict which cats can use the name.
Names in similar collections to Peanut
These entries have source references and overlap with this name in the site’s editorial collections. The overlap does not measure pet-owner preferences or prove a shared linguistic origin.