Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Cashew"
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) 1.7 (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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