Belonging to, or resembling, a family, or order, of plants of which the cashew tree is the type, and the species of sumac are well known examples.
It is the fruit of a small, deciduous tree of the cashew family (Anacardiaceae), a native of western Asia, but many centuries ago it had become naturalized in Palestine and throughout the Mediterranean regions.
The black varnish of Burmah is obtained from the Melanorrhoea usitatissima, a tall East Indian tree of the Cashew family.
Then it was observed that the tiny birds seemed to focus their flight upon one part of the clearing, and this proved to be the four cashew trees.
In some such way as vultures concentrate upon carrion, so news of the cashew sweets had passed through the jungle.
They did not have a monopoly of the cashew manna, for now and then a honey-creeper or flower-pecker flew into the tree and took toll of the sweets.
He considered the cashew trees as his own special property and as far as his side of them went he made good his claim.
Or a host of hummingbirds of nearly a score of species would descend upon the cashew blossoms in the rear compound.
The Crooknecks of New England "may be distinguished from the Cashew by the want of a persistent style, and by their furrowed and club-shaped fruit-stems.
The powdered wood made into a paste with water is undoubtedly a useful application in acute dermatitis, especially that due to contact with the caustic oleo-resin of the cashew nut (Anacardium).
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cashew" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
