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cashewnut

cashewnut is the alternative form of cashew nut.

Meaning of cashew nut

Noun

cashew nut (plural cashew nuts)

  1. The seed of the cashew tree, often viewed as a nut in the culinary sense.
    • Cashew nut is made up of a fruit in which the kernel is embedded. The real fruit of the cashew is commonly a nut. It is a kidney- or heart-shaped achene, in any normal variety.2015, Encyclopedia of Food and Health, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 683
    Synonyms:
    cashew

Forms of cashewnut

pluralcashewnuts

Questions about cashewnut

What is cashewnut the alternative form of?
Cashewnut is the alternative form of cashew nut.

Words near cashewnut in the dictionary

  1. cashew nuts
  2. cashew nutshell liquid
  3. cashew-nut
  4. cashew-nuts
  5. cashewlike
  6. cashewnut
  7. cashewnuts
  8. cashews
  9. cashfag
  10. cashfags
  11. cashflow

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cashewnut (page history and authors); cashew nut (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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