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CASHEW-NUT

\kˈaʃjuːnˈʌt], \kˈaʃjuːnˈʌt], \k_ˈa_ʃ_j_uː_n_ˈʌ_t]\

Definitions of CASHEW-NUT

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
1895 - Glossary of terms and phrases

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The fruit of Anacardium : its oil is used in leprosy.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

[Fr.] The fruit of a tropical tree, Anacardium occidentale, nat. ord. Anacardiaceae.

1895 - Glossary of terms and phrases
By Henry Percy Smith

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