cashew
Other forms: cashews
A cashew is a bushy tree that grows cashew nuts. Roasted, salted cashews make a great snack.
While cashews are always categorized with other nuts, they are officially a seed, the size and shape of a kidney bean. Cashew trees are native to Brazil, but they were long ago introduced to India, and cashews are a common ingredient in many South Asian dishes. Cashew is a shortened form of the French acajou, from the Tupi name for the cashew tree, acajuba.
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kidney-shaped nut edible only when roastedsynonyms: cashew nuttype of:edible nuta hard-shelled seed consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell
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tropical American evergreen tree bearing kidney-shaped nuts that are edible only when roastedsynonyms: Anacardium occidentale, cashew treetype of:nut treetree bearing edible nuts
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Here are 15 common English words whose roots come from indigenous languages of the Americas. The fate of the people who spoke these languages varies greatly, from tribes lost to history (that we only know about through records of other tribes) to the Guarani, whose language at last count had over 4 million speakers in Paraguay. All of these peoples, whatever their current status, have contributed their ideas and their perspectives through the English words below. Many of these terms have to do with animals and foods to be found in nature, but the Algonquian roots of "tuxedo" may come as a surprise! Read on below for tales of many more English words from indigenous sources.