Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A kind of mahogany, the wood of Cedrela fissilis: also applied to the true mahogany and other similar woods. See mahogany.
- n. The fruit of the tree Anacardium occidentale. See cashew-nut, cashew-tree.
- n. A gum or resin extracted from the bark of Anacardium occidentale.
Wiktionary
- n. The wood from the mahogany tree or other trees from the family Meliaceae.
- n. A moderate reddish brown that is slightly yellower and stronger than mahogany . acajou colour:
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The cashew tree; also, its fruit. See cashew.
- n. The mahogany tree; also, its timber.
Etymologies
- From French, acajou ("cashew"), from Portuguese acaju, from Old Tupi acaju or agapú ("mahogany") or the same root as cashew. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Newly arrived runaways had first to erase their past, mutilating their brands with knives or the juice of toxic plants—acajou or bresillet—that caused disfiguring welts.”
“For these are rich; and the high solemnities of burial are theirs -- the coffin of acajou, and the triple ringing, and the Cross of Gold to be carried before them as they pass to their long sleep under the palms, -- saluted for the last time by all the population of St. Pierre, standing bareheaded in the sun ....”
“Puerto an old monastery was chosen for 'La Traviata:' the latter was realistic as Crabbe's poetry; even in bed the unfortunate 'Misled' one could not do without a certain truncated cylinder of acajou.”
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
“At St. Domingo, it is considered as a species of _acajou_, [36] and they give it that name.”
“As for the English word, OED2e records its root as French acajou and its first use as early as 1703.”
“It is a fine medicine, and the sap of the tree produces a product like gum arabic, and is known in commerce as acajou. ”
“My furniture," he recorded, "just from Paris, was acajou and white and blue horse-hair.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘acajou’.
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Rognons of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for terms and phrases that don't fit into any of my other lists.
priorship, exigeant, refectory, reestablish, capper, reesed, quar, reprune, orificial, reaming-iron, terminist, terminism and 3097 more...
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Fall Words 2009
sgraffito, maestá, tempera, size, gesso, obsolescence, hinterland, taboret, pram, amygdalate, pandect, loggia and 105 more...
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Chromonyms
These chromonyms are defined as colors in at least one dictionary (mostly MW3). (Actually there's one fake, for reasons I'll explain someday.) They are all one-word nouns such as "kelly", which can...
absinthe, acacia, acorn, alabaster, alesan, almond, aloma, amaranth, amber, amethyst, anemone, anil and 821 more...
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poetic & exotic
gloaming, nacreous, limpid, lambent, limn, elegiac, arenaceous, boreal, harlequin, sphinx, alfresco, coruscate and 109 more...
Tweets
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mollusque Or the acajou boxes filled with little white packets like a village apothecary's cachets, wrapped in parchment covered with untranslatable ciphers . . .
--Umberto Eco, 1988, Foucault's Pendulum, p. 14 Sep 29, 2008