Cashew

['kæʃuː;kə'ʃuː] or ['kæʃʊ]

Definition

(noun.) kidney-shaped nut edible only when roasted.

(noun.) tropical American evergreen tree bearing kidney-shaped nuts that are edible only when roasted.

Typed by Jewel--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) 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.

Typist: Penelope

Definition

n. a spreading tree of no great height in both the East and West Indies the fruit of which is a kidney-shaped nut at the end of a pear-shaped fleshy stalk the kernel of this nut and the fleshy stalk (called the Cashew′-app′le) being both used as food.

Edited by Hattie