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cashoo

cashoo is the archaic form of catechu.

cashoo is the misspelling of cashew.

Meaning of catechu

Noun

catechu (countable and uncountable, plural catechus)

  1. A gummy extract of any of several species of Acacieae, but especially Senegalia catechu, produced by boiling the wood of the tree in water and evaporating the resulting liquid.
    • The pale catechus are usually sweeter and more pleasant for chewing.1837, Jonathan Pereira, “Lectures on Materia Medica: Lecture LXI”, in London Medical Gazette, volume XX, page 107
    Synonyms:
    Japanese earth

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

Forms of cashoo

pluralcashoos

Questions about cashoo

What is cashoo the archaic form of?
Cashoo is the archaic form of catechu.

Words near cashoo in the dictionary

  1. Cashmiris
  2. Cashmoor
  3. Cashmore
  4. Cashmores
  5. cashola
  6. cashoo
  7. cashoos
  8. cashout
  9. cashouts
  10. cashpoint
  11. cashpoints

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cashoo (page history and authors); catechu (page history and authors); cashew (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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