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cashews

cashews is the plural of cashew.

Meaning of cashew

Noun

cashew (plural cashews)

  1. Any tree of the genus Anacardium.
  2. A tree, Anacardium occidentale, native to northeastern Brazil, now widely grown in tropical climates for its cashew nuts and cashew apples.
    • Soft-wood grafting and veneer grafting are successful in cashew.2002, P. K. Ray, Breeding Tropical and Subtropical Fruits, page 221
    Synonyms:
    acajou
  3. A cashew nut.
    • In some countries, cashews continue to be cracked manually although cracking machinery and other shelling mechanisms have been introduced.1996, Thomas Payne, “17: Nuts”, in Laszlo Somogyi, Diane M. Barrett, Y. H. Hui, editors, Processing Fruits, page 529

Phrases with cashews

Questions about cashews

What is cashews the plural of?
Cashews is the plural of cashew.

Words near cashews in the dictionary

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

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