What is the meat of a peanut called?

Question

What is the meat of a peanut called?

Answer 1

A peanut is the fruit of the peanut plant.   In botany, FRUIT refers to the ripened ovary of the flower, enclosing seeds.

A peanut is a kind of pea, not a nut. Like other peas, peanuts bear seeds in pods. There are two peanuts in most peanut pods. The whole peanut, with the pod, is the fruit. The part that we consume is the seed.

THEREFORE, the fleshy inner part of the peanut is the seed, the fertilized embryo that will form a new plant upon germinating.

The peanut pods are unusual because it develops underground.