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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A genus of shrubs and trees, natural order Anacardiaceæ, natives of tropical America. They bear a kidney-shaped drupe at the summit of a fleshy receptacle, the thickened disk and peduncle of the. flower. In the cashew-tree, A. occidentale, the principal species, this receptacle resembles a pear in shape and size, and is edible, having an agreeable acid though somewhat astringent flavor. The drupes are roasted, and the kernels, having their intense acridity thus destroyed, become the pleasant and wholesome cashew-nuts. The tree yields a gum having qualities like those of gum arabic, imported from South America under the name of acajou.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) A genus of plants including the cashew tree. See cashew.
WordNet 3.0
- n. type genus of the Anacardiaceae: cashew
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“Ayurveda places a great deal of emphasis on preventing cancer with diet, lifestyle changes, exercise, and the use of various Ayurvedic compounds, most notably the extract of Semicarpus anacardium nut and the flowers of Calotropis procera, as reported by Smit in 1995.”
“Studies on the mechanism of action of Semicarpus anacardium in rheumatoid arthritis.”
“Some of them are also village watchmen, and another special avocation of theirs is the collection of the oil of the marking-nut tree (_Semecarpus anacardium_).”
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala
“Beginning then with metallic mercury (_argentum vivum_), he considers the poisonous effects of various salts of lead and copper, the vegetable poisons hellebore, anacardium (_anacardis?”
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