Definitions for cashew

cashew cash·ew

Spelling: [kash-oo, kuh-shoo]
IPA: /ˈkæʃ u, kəˈʃu/

Cashew is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 103 anagrams from letters in cashew (acehsw).

Definitions for cashew

noun

  1. a tree, Anacardium occidentale, native to tropical America, having milky juice, simple, leathery leaves, and yellowish-pink flowers in open clusters.
  2. Also called cashew nut. the small, kidney-shaped, edible nut of this tree.

Origin of cashew

1695-1705; Portuguese cajú, aphetic variant of acajú Tupi akaʾiu

Examples for cashew

In some such way as vultures concentrate upon carrion, so news of the cashew sweets had passed through the jungle.

He considered the cashew trees as his own special property and as far as his side of them went he made good his claim.

One of these bears nuts of huge size, another smaller nuts with very thin shell and with the flavor of the cashew nut.

Or a host of hummingbirds of nearly a score of species would descend upon the cashew blossoms in the rear compound.

Why are the varieties of the cashew tribe, called varnish-trees?

The fruit of the cashew is not palatable, but its juice, when distilled, produces a strong intoxicating spirit.

Those I bought were of Guava, cashew apple, citron, and lime.

The fluid contained between the kernel and shell of the cashew nut.

The cashew thus vicariously sacrifices its fruit-stem for the sake of preserving its nut.

But all the information we could glean was that they were called French cashew.

Word Value for cashew
Scrable

14

Words with friends

14

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