[Fr. word: see CASHEW.]
1. The Cashew or Cashew-nut.
1725. Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. The Nut or Chestnut of Acajou, a Fruit that is almost as big as a Chestnut.
1794. Martyn, Rousseau’s Bot., xix. 262. Acajou or Cashew we know chiefly by the nut, which grows at the end of a fleshy body as large as an orange, and full of an acid juice.
2. A medicinal preparation yielded by the mahogany tree (Fr. acajou).
1879. Syd. Soc. Lex.
