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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 cash·ew /ˈkæ(ˌ)ʃu, kəˈʃu/
 腰果樹,腰果

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ca·shew n.
 1. Bot. A tree (Anacardium occidentale) of the same family which the sumac. It is native in tropical America, but is now naturalized in all tropical countries. Its fruit, a kidney-shaped nut, grows at the extremity of an edible, pear-shaped hypocarp, about three inches long.
 Cashew nut, the large, kidney-shaped fruit of the cashew, which is edible after the caustic oil has been expelled from the shell by roasting the nut.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 cashew
      n 1: tropical American evergreen tree bearing kidney-shaped nuts
           that are edible only when roasted [syn: cashew tree, Anacardium
           occidentale]
      2: kidney-shaped nut edible only when roasted [syn: cashew nut]