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cashew

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun cashew has 2 senses

cashew(n = noun.plant) anacardium occidentale, cashew tree - tropical American evergreen tree bearing kidney-shaped nuts that are edible only when roasted; Array

has parts: cashew, cashew nut

is a member of anacardium, genus anacardium

is a kind of nut tree

cashew(n = noun.food) cashew nut - kidney-shaped nut edible only when roasted; Array

is a kind of edible nut

is a part of anacardium occidentale, cashew, cashew tree

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CIDE DICTIONARY

cashew, n. [F. acajou, for cajou, prob. from Malay kāyu tree; cf. Pg. acaju, cf. Acajou.].

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]
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.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

cashew, n.
1 a bushy evergreen tree, Anacardium occidentale, native to Central and S. America, bearing kidney-shaped nuts attached to fleshy fruits.
2 (in full cashew nut) the edible nut of this tree.

Idiom

cashew apple the edible fleshy fruit of this tree.

Etymology

Port. f. Tupi (a)caju

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