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chashew

chashew is the obsolete form 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

Forms of chashew

pluralchashews

Questions about chashew

What is chashew the obsolete form of?
Chashew is the obsolete form of cashew.

Words near chashew in the dictionary

  1. chasest
  2. chaseth
  3. Chasetown
  4. chasework
  5. chasey
  6. chashew
  7. chashews
  8. chashitsu
  9. chashni
  10. Chashtana
  11. chashu

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