• Revan343@lemmy.ca
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    11 hours ago

    I guess they get their name because they’re in pods like peas but without being told

    Presumably the opposite; they get their name because they’re in shells like nuts

    (The ‘pea’ part is because they’re a legume; it could have just as easily ended up ‘bean-nut’, except that would over time become ‘beanut’, which would probably re-become peanut)