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Anacardium occidentale
(gcide) | Cashew \Ca*shew"\ (k[.a]*sh[=oo]"), n. [F. acajou, for cajou,
prob. from Malay k[=a]yu tree; cf. Pg. acaju, cf. Acajou.]
1. (Bot.) 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.
[1913 Webster]
2. the cashew nut.
[PJC]
Cashew nut, 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.
[1913 Webster] |
anacardium occidentale
(wn) | Anacardium occidentale
n 1: tropical American evergreen tree bearing kidney-shaped nuts
that are edible only when roasted [syn: cashew, {cashew
tree}, Anacardium occidentale] |
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