Cashew

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  • noun. A tropical American evergreen tree (Anacardium occidentale) widely cultivated for its edible seeds.
  • noun. The kidney-shaped seed of this tree.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The Anacardium occidentale and its fruit. See Anacardium and cashew-nut.
  • noun. Same as cachou.
  • noun. See cushaw.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A tree (Anacardium occidentale) of the same family which the sumac. It is native in tropical America, but is now naturalized in all tropical countries. Its fruit, a kidney-shaped nut, grows at the extremity of an edible, pear-shaped hypocarp, about three inches long.
  • noun. the cashew nut.
  • noun. the large, kidney-shaped fruit of the cashew, which is edible after the caustic oil has been expelled from the shell by roasting the nut.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A tree, Anacardium occidentale, native to northeastern Brazil, now widely grown in tropical climates for its cashew nuts and cashew apples.
  • noun. A cashew nut.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. kidney-shaped nut edible only when roasted
  • noun. tropical American evergreen tree bearing kidney-shaped nuts that are edible only when roasted
  • Word Usage
    "The most relevant achievements during his term were to shrink the economy to bleak inflation (by 80% per month, when he left office) and to make fashionable big blazers and dying hair in cashew nut shades."
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