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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: tropical American evergreen tree bearing kidney-shaped nuts that are edible only when roasted [syn: cashew, cashew tree, Anacardium occidentale]
2: kidney-shaped nut edible only when roasted [syn: cashew, cashew nut]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Portuguese cajú, acajú, from Tupi akajú Date: 1598 a tropical American tree (Anacardium occidentale of the family Anacardiaceae, the cashew family) grown for a phenolic oil and the edible kernel of its nut and for a gum from its stem; also cashew nut

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a bushy evergreen tree, Anacardium occidentale, native to Central and S. America, bearing kidney-shaped nuts attached to fleshy fruits. 2 (in full cashew nut) the edible nut of this tree. Phrases and idioms: cashew apple the edible fleshy fruit of this tree. Etymology: Port. f. Tupi (a)caju

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(cashews) A cashew or a cashew nut is a curved nut that you can eat. N-COUNT