cashew-nut

Guinean Democratic Movement, the court's decision negates any credence of the rule of law for Guinea-Bissau, which can only mean greater suffering for the 1.3 million people who eke out a living in fishing and cashew-nut farming for an average 140 dollars per year.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

Mismanagement and corruption have hindered further development of the fishing industry that is the mainstay of the tiny country's economy along with cashew-nut farming.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

Retted pith mixed with cashew-nut shell liquid resin (rubbery substance) produces an expansion joint filler, which is resistant to temperature and moisture fluctuations and to insect and fungal attack.

4. Innovative technologies related to recycling of materials 1995

An oil is produced from the inner shell of the cashew-nut (_Anacardium occidentale_ var. _indicum_), in the East.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds

Here it feeds on the cashew-nut tree, on the so-called almond of this country (_Terminalia catappa_), which is a large tree entirely different from the European almond, and on many other trees.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 Various

Even in England we are familiar enough with such defences as those possessed by the outer rind of the walnut; but the tropical cashew-nut has a rind so intensely acrid that it blisters the lips and fingers instantaneously, in the same way as cantharides would do.

Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873

The well-known cashew-nut grows like an excrescence from the end of the apple.

Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon Samuel White Baker 1857

Tuyen continued to work as a carpenter while Phuong got a job at a cashew-nut processing factory.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011

"Vietnam is the world's largest cashew-nut exporter, and some people don't like that," he says.

TIME.com: Top Stories 2011

The official economy relies on cashew-nut exports, though the country has unexploited bauxite, phosphate and oil deposits.

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