cashew
(kæʃuː , kæʃuː )
Word forms: cashews
countable noun
A cashew or a cashew nut is a curved nut that you can eat.
Add the cashews and stir.
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cashew tree
This tree has a circumference of 500 metres and occupies an area of 7,300 m, making it 70 times the size of average cashew trees.
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Local flora/fauna includes cashew trees and mango trees.
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The cashew trees sway in the breeze welcoming the visitors.
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The cyclone destroyed over 2000ha acre of beans and cassava crops and knocked down thousands of cashew trees, in areas already affected by food shortages due to drought conditions.
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Lizards basked in the sunshine as butterflies conducted aerobatics over the cashew tree.
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Translations:
Chinese: 腰果
Japanese: カシューナッツ
- top grade
- top graduates
- top half of
- top hat
- top-heavy
- top honour
- topiary
- topic
- topical
- topical application of
- topical discussion
- topical issue
- topicality
- topical reference
- topical subject
- topical theme
- to pick and choose
- to pick holes in something
- to pick holes in something
- to pick someone's brains
- to pick someone's pocket
- topic of conversation
- topic of study
- to pieces
- to pip someone at the post