a. [f. as prec. + -IC.] Of the Anacardium or Cashew-nut; as in Anacardic acid, C44H54O7, extracted, together with cardol, by the action of ether on the pericarps of the cashew-nut. Its salts are anacardates.
1863. Watts, Dict. Chem., I. 209. From the solution of anacardate of ammonium … the anacardic acid is liberated by the addition of sulphuric acid.
