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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
cashew nut
    n 1: kidney-shaped nut edible only when roasted [syn: cashew,
         cashew nut]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
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