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Webster 1913 Edition
Cashew
Ca-shew′
(kȧ-shoō′)
, Noun.
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. 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.