Cashew
Cashew (kȧ*sho") , noun
[French acajou, for cajou, prob. from Malay kāyu tree; compare Portuguese acaju, compare Acajou.]
1.
(Botany) 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.
2.
the cashew nut.
Collocations (1)
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.