anacardic acid
noun
an·a·car·dic acid
¦anə¦kärdik-
: a brown crystalline vesicant phenolic acid found as the principal constituent of cashew nutshell liquid, held to consist of a mixture of unsaturated derivatives of salicylic acid, and converted to cardanol by decarboxylation
Word History
Etymology
International Scientific Vocabulary anacardic (from New Latin Anacardium + International Scientific Vocabulary -ic) + acid; originally formed as German anakardsäure
First Known Use
1848, in the meaning defined above