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cashew family
noun
the plant family Anacardiaceae, typified by trees, shrubs, or vines having resinous and sometimes poisonous juice, alternate leaves, small flowers, and a nut or fleshy fruit, and including the cashew, mango, pistachio, poison ivy, and sumac.
Example Sentences
The anacardiaceae family of trees, sometimes called the cashew family, includes mango, poison ivy, poison oak, sumac, Peruvian pepper, pistachio, and you guessed it, cashews.
Elephant Bush, Pachycormus discolor: This flowering member of the cashew family offers perching and food for small birds.
Hogā²gishness; Hogā²hood, the nature of a hog; Hogā²-mane, a horse's mane clipped short; Hogā²-pen, a pig-sty; Hogā²-plum, a West Indian tree of the cashew family, the fruit given to hogs; Hogā²-reeve, -conā²stable, an officer charged with the care of stray swine; Hogā²-ringā²er, one who puts rings into the snouts of hogs; Hog'sā²-bean, the henbane.āv.t.
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