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cashew apples

cashew apples is the plural of cashew apple.

Meaning of cashew apple

Noun

cashew apple (plural cashew apples)

  1. An ovoid to pear-shaped accessory fruit or false fruit that develops from the receptacle of the cashew flower (the true fruit being the cashew nut).
    • The cashew apple is really the swollen flower stalk to which the nut is attached.[…]Generally, not more than two or three cashew apples are eaten at a time because the apple is fibrous and has an astringent and acrid taste due to the presence of tannins and substances of a phenolic nature which...1995, “Appendix III: Cashew Apple Preparations”, in Regional Meeting on Cashew Research and Development, page 44

Questions about cashew apples

What is cashew apples the plural of?
Cashew apples is the plural of cashew apple.

Words near cashew apples in the dictionary

  1. cashes in one's chips
  2. cashes out
  3. cashes up
  4. cashew
  5. cashew apple
  6. cashew apples
  7. cashew milk
  8. cashew nut
  9. cashew nuts
  10. cashew nutshell liquid
  11. cashew-nut

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