Anacardium

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Anacardium \An`a*car"di*um\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? similar to + ?
     heart; -- the fruit of this plant being thought to resemble
     the heart of a bird.] (Bot.)
     A genus of plants including the cashew tree. See {Cashew}.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Anacardium
       n : type genus of the Anacardiaceae: cashew [syn: {genus
           Anacardium}]