acajou

Noun

acajou (countable and uncountable, plural acajous)

1. The cashew tree.
   • The head man's fury shouted out in the curve of the acajous—he insulted hunters, gendarmes, planters, and the transparent clouds lowering with the sky—before sticking the gun barrel under the chin thrust deep into solitude and a suffering that sees all.2020, Betsy Wing, transl., Mahagony^([sic]), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, translation of original by Édouard Glissant, →ISBN, page 105
2. A cashew nut.
3. The wood from the mahogany tree or other trees from the family Meliaceae.
4. A moderate reddish brown that is slightly yellower and stronger than mahogany.