cashew

English

cashew tree

ripe cashew apples

toasted cashew nuts

Etymology

Reanalysis of French acajou as a + cajou, from Old Tupi akaîu. Doublet of acajou.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæʃuː/, /ˈkæʃjuː/, /kəˈʃuː/
• Rhymes: -uː
• Homophone: cachou

Noun

cashew (plural cashews)

1. A tree, Anacardium occidentale, native to northeastern Brazil, now widely grown in tropical climates for its cashew nuts and cashew apples.

   Synonym: acajou

   • 2002, P. K. Ray, Breeding Tropical and Subtropical Fruits‎^[1], page 221:

     Soft-wood grafting and veneer grafting are successful in cashew.

   • 2005, Roger Martin, Tree-Kangaroos of Australia and New Guinea‎^[2], page 106:

     Also known as the Native Cashew, it is a member of the Anacardiaceae, the same plant family to which the Cashew and Mango trees belong.

   • 2007, Alice Kurian, K. V. Peter (series editor), Commercial Crops Technology (Horticulture Science; 8)‎^[3], page 63:

     Cashew (Anacardium occidental L.) is an export-oriented crop grown for its nuts, a true drupe.

2. A cashew nut.
   • 1996, Thomas Payne, “17: Nuts”, in Laszlo Somogyi, Diane M. Barrett, Y. H. Hui, editors, Processing Fruits‎^[4], page 529:

     In some countries, cashews continue to be cracked manually although cracking machinery and other shelling mechanisms have been introduced.

   • 2004, Frederic Rosengarten, Jr., The Book of Edible Nuts‎^[5], page 46:

     The bland cashew is a fitting substitute for higher priced almonds to extend the nut texture. In baking, however, almonds are more suitable for cake decoration than cashews.

   • 2010, Dick Logue, 500 Low Glycemic Index Recipes‎^[6], page 413:

     This is a spicy variation of Kung Pao Chicken using cashews rather than the more common peanuts.

Derived terms

• cashew apple
• cashew nut
• cashew nutshell liquid
• wild cashew (Anacardium excelsum or Anacardium giganteum)
• cashew tree
• cashew bird
• cashewlike
• Otaheite cashew

Translations

tree

• Afrikaans: cachou
• Albanian: kashu
• Arabic: كَاجُو m (kājū), بَلَاذِر (balāḏir)
• Armenian: բալատրենի (hy) (balatreni)
• Azerbaijani: kašu
• Bulgarian: кашу n (kašu)
• Burmese: သီဟိုဠ် (sihuil)
• Catalan: anacard m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 腰果樹／腰果树 (yāoguǒshù)

• Czech: kešu oříšek m
• Dutch: cashew (nl), cachou (nl)
• Esperanto: akaĵuarbo, akaĵuujo,
• Estonian: lääneanakard, india nakrapuu
• Finnish: munuaispuu (fi)
• French: cajou (fr) m, anacardier (fr) m
• Georgian: აკაჟუ (aḳažu)
• German: Kaschu m, Kaschubaum m
• Greek: ανακάρδιο n (anakárdio)
• Gujarati: કાજુ n (kāju)
• Hindi: कश्यु (kaśyu)
• Hungarian: kesudió (hu), kesu (hu), kesufa
• Italian: anacardio m
• Japanese: カシュー (ja) (kashū)
• Khmer: ស្វាយចន្ទី (km) (svaay cantii)
• Korean: 캐슈 (kaesyu)
• Latin: cassuvium m
• Macedonian: индиски орев m (indiski orev)
• Malagasy: mahabibo (mg)
• Malay: gajus
• Malayalam: കശുമാവ് (ml) (kaśumāvŭ)
• Maltese: anakardju
• Maori: keihū
• Mongolian: хушны (mn) (xušny)
• Polish: nerkowiec
• Portuguese: caju (pt) m, cajueiro m
• Romanian: acaju (ro), anacardier (ro) m
• Russian: кешью́ (ru) n (kešʹjú)
• Slovak: kešu
• Slovene: índijski (sl) m
• Somali: mahabibo
• Spanish: marañón (es) m, anacardo (es) m, merey (es) m, cajuil (es) m, cajú (es) m, cayú (es), nuez de la India (es), pepa (es)
• Swahili: mkorosho (sw)
• Swedish: acajouträd n
• Tagalog: kasoy (tl)
• Tamil: முந்திரி (ta) (muntiri)
• Thai:

  Central Thai: มะม่วงหิมพานต์ (th) (má-mûuang-hǐm-má-paan)

  Southern Thai: หัวครก (hǔua-krók), ยาร่วง (hǔua-krók)

• Ukrainian: ке́ш'ю m (kéšʺju)
• Vietnamese: cây điều, cây đào lộn hột
• Welsh: cashiw

cashew nut — see cashew nut

Further reading

• cashew on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Chewas