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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cashew \Ca*shew"\ (k[.a]*sh[=oo]"), n. [F. acajou, for cajou, prob. from Malay k[=a]yu tree; cf Pg acaju, cf {Acajou}.] (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. {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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: cashew n 1: tropical American evergreen tree bearing kidney-shaped nuts that are edible only when roasted [syn: {cashew tree}, {Anacardium occidentale}] 2: kidney-shaped nut edible only when roasted [syn: {cashew nut}]
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