cashew

Definition von cashew im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: A cashew nut; A tree in the flowering plant family Anacardiaceae, native to northeastern Brazil, now widely grown in tropical climates for its cashew nuts and cashew apples; A tree (Anacardium occidentale) of the same family which the sumac; Its fruit, a kidney-shaped nut, grows at the extremity of an edible, pear- shaped hypocarp, about three inches long; kidney-shaped nut edible only when roasted; {i} type of tree; fruit of this tree; kidney-shaped nut edible only when roasted tropical American evergreen tree bearing kidney-shaped nuts that are edible only when roasted; A cashew or a cashew nut is a curved nut that you can eat. Edible seed or nut of Anacardium occidentale, a tropical and subtropical evergreen shrub or tree in the sumac family, native to tropical Central and South America. Important chiefly for its nuts, the tree also produces wood used for shipping crates, boats, and charcoal, and a gum similar to gum arabic. Related to poison ivy and poison sumac, it must be handled with care. The two-shelled nut is shaped like a large, thick bean. A brown oil between the two shells blisters human skin and is used as a lubricant and an insecticide and in the production of plastics. The nut is rich and distinctively flavoured; It is native in tropical America, but is now naturalized in all tropical countries; tropical American evergreen tree bearing kidney-shaped nuts that are edible only when roasted
cashew apple: An oval to pear-shaped accessory fruit or false fruit that develops from the receptacle of the cashew flower (the true fruit being the cashew nut)
cashew apples: plural form of cashew apple
cashew nut: The seed of the cashew tree, often viewed as a nut in the culinary sense, though in the botanical sense classified as a seed
cashew nuts: plural form of cashew nut
cashew apple: The soft, swollen, pear-shaped edible stalk of the fruit of the cashew
cashew nut: kidney-shaped nut edible only when roasted
cashew nut: The edible seed of the cashew tree
cashews: plural of cashew