cashew

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The outer layer of the cashew, a dry drupe, is called the exocarp, and the thick inner layer is the endocarp.

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  1. noun A tropical American evergreen tree (Anacardium occidentale) widely cultivated for its edible nutlike kernels.
  2. noun The kidney-shaped seed of this tree, eaten after roasting.

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  • The cashew is a tropical and subtropical evergreen shrub or tree. —  San Francisco Sentinel
  • Local people are now are now being persuaded to switch from crops like cashew -- which cause greater soil degradation and erosion (which then pollutes the river) but give high cash yields —  EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed
  • I don't like the cashew (the nasty icon in the right top corner of your plasma desktop that won't go away, even if plasma's locked) —  KDE-Look.org Content
  • I totally agree with you and unfortunately, I found many threads in which Aaron basically says "you're all stupid, the cashew is mine and I'll keep it, you will never have the option to remove it". —  KDE-Look.org Content
  • Now that I'm running KDE 4.2 the cashew is back: (Please, please update your plasmoid:) —  KDE-Look.org Content
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  1. Probably Portuguese acajú, from Tupi, from cajú, yellow fruit, acidic.

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  1. Also written cadju (= French cachou in special sense, a sweetmeat: see cachou); = Portuguese caju = Spanish cayou (English also acajou = German acajou-, acajanuss, after F. acajou à pommes, the cashew-tree, noix d'acajou, the cashew-nut, by confusion with acajou, mahogany: see acajou), from Hind, kājū, kānjū, the cashew-nut.
 

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