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A tree, Anacardium occidentale, native to northeastern Brazil, now widely grown in tropical climates for its cashew nuts and cashew apples.
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A cashew nut.
Examples of cashew in a Sentence
Avoid dishes with cashew nuts they are over 50% fat!
Both our choices of mushrooms with cashew nuts and tofu in black bean sauce were excellent and full of flavor.
The storm swamped 23,000 hectares of crops, and uprooted over 28,000 cashew trees.
Formerly this coast region furnished large quantities of Brazil-wood (Caesalpinia echinata), and the river valleys have long been the principal source of Brazil's best cabinet-wood - rosewood (Dalbergia nigra), jacaranda (Machaeriumfirmum,Benth.),vinhatico (Plathymenia foliosa, Benth.), peroba (Aspidosperma peroba), cedro, &c. The exotic mangabeira (mango) is found everywhere along the coast, together with the bamboo, orange, lemon, banana, cashew, &c.
Go nutty - have a handful of cashew nuts, peanuts, almonds or brazil nuts these provide you with healthy fats.
In Goa, India, the cashew apple is the source of juicy pulp used to prepare fenny, a locally popular distilled liquor.
Beside making highly nutritive snacks and juices, Cashew fruit extracts are now being used in body care products.
Main exports include sisal, cloves, coffee, cotton, cashew nuts, minerals and tobacco.
Raw nuts pay an 18 per cent export surtax - a measure designed to protect the national cashew processing industry.
Mix the ground cashew with 1/8 cup water, adding 1 tablespoon of water at a time until nut paste is smooth.
Among the more common fruit-trees, some of which are exotics, may be mentioned cacao (Theobroma), orange, lemon, lime, pine-apple, banana, guava (Psidium), breadfruit (Artocarpus), cashew (A nacardium), alligator pear (Pers ea), with the apple, peach, pear, and other fruits of the temperate zone on the elevated plateaus.
You obviously don't want to buy a basket loaded with Cabernets when the person isn't a red wine drinker, nor do you want one loaded with honey-dusted cashew nuts when the person is allergic to cashew nuts.