Noun
cashew (plural cashews)
- A tree, Anacardium occidentale, native to northeastern Brazil, now widely grown in tropical climates for its cashew nuts and cashew apples.
- Synonym: acajou
2002, P. K. Ray, Breeding Tropical and Subtropical Fruits, page 221:Soft-wood grafting and veneer grafting are successful in cashew.
2005, Roger Martin, Tree-Kangaroos of Australia and New Guinea, page 106:Also known as the Native Cashew, it is a member of the Anacardiaceae, the same plant family to which the Cashew and Mango trees belong.
2007, Alice Kurian, K. V. Peter (series editor), Commercial Crops Technology (Horticulture Science; 8), page 63:Cashew (Anacardium occidental L.) is an export-oriented crop grown for its nuts, a true drupe.
- A cashew nut.
1996, Thomas Payne, “17: Nuts”, in Laszlo Somogyi, Diane M. Barrett, Y. H. Hui, editors, Processing Fruits, page 529:In some countries, cashews continue to be cracked manually although cracking machinery and other shelling mechanisms have been introduced.
2004, Frederic Rosengarten, Jr., The Book of Edible Nuts, page 46:The bland cashew is a fitting substitute for higher priced almonds to extend the nut texture. In baking, however, almonds are more suitable for cake decoration than cashews.
2010, Dick Logue, 500 Low Glycemic Index Recipes, page 413:This is a spicy variation of Kung Pao Chicken using cashews rather than the more common peanuts.
Translations
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- Afrikaans: cachou
- Albanian: kashu
- Arabic: كَاجُو m (kājū), بَلَاذِر (balāḏir)
- Armenian: բալատրենի (hy) (balatreni)
- Azerbaijani: kašu
- Bulgarian: кашу n (kašu)
- Burmese: သီဟိုဠ် (sihuil)
- Catalan: anacard m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 腰果樹 / 腰果树 (yāoguǒshù)
- Czech: kešu oříšek m
- Dutch: cashew (nl), cachou (nl), kasjoe c (Suriname)
- Esperanto: akaĵuarbo, akaĵuujo,
- Estonian: lääneanakard, india nakrapuu
- Finnish: munuaispuu (fi)
- French: cajou (fr) m, anacardier (fr) m
- Georgian: აკაჟუ (aḳažu)
- German: Kaschu m, Kaschubaum m
- Greek: ανακάρδιο n (anakárdio)
- Gujarati: કાજુ n (kāju)
- Hindi: कश्यु (kaśyu)
- Hungarian: kesudió (hu), kesu (hu), kesufa
- Italian: anacardio m
- Japanese: カシュー (ja) (kashū)
- Kari'na: oroi
- Khmer: ស្វាយចន្ទី (km) (svaay cantii)
- Korean: 캐슈 (kaesyu)
- Latin: cassuvium m
- Lokono: merehi
- Macedonian: индиски орев m (indiski orev)
- Malagasy: mahabibo (mg)
- Malay: gajus
- Malayalam: കശുമാവ് (ml) (kaśumāvŭ)
- Maltese: anakardju
- Maori: keihū
- Marathi: काजू m (kājū)
- Mongolian: хушны (mn) (xušny)
- Polish: nerkowiec
- Portuguese: caju (pt) m, cajueiro m
- Romanian: acaju (ro), anacardier (ro) m
- Russian: кешью́ (ru) n (kešʹjú)
- Saramaccan: kàdyu
- Slovak: kešu
- Slovene: índijski (sl) m
- Somali: mahabibo
- Spanish: marañón (es) m, anacardo (es) m, merey (es) m, cajuil (es) m (Dominican Republic), cajú (es) m, cayú (es), nuez de la India (es), pepa (es)
- Sranan Tongo: kasyu
- Swahili: mkorosho (sw)
- Swedish: acajouträd n
- Tagalog: kasoy (tl)
- Tamil: முந்திரி (ta) (muntiri)
- Thai:
- Central Thai: มะม่วงหิมพานต์ (th) (má-mûuang-hǐm-má-paan)
- Southern Thai: หัวครก (hǔua-krók), ยาร่วง (hǔua-krók)
- Ukrainian: ке́ш'ю m (kéšʺju)
- Vietnamese: cây điều, cây đào lộn hột
- Welsh: cashiw
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