Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of shrubs and trees, natural order Anacardiaceæ, natives of tropical America.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A genus of plants including the cashew tree. See
cashew .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun type genus of the Anacardiaceae: cashew
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Examples
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Ayurveda places a great deal of emphasis on preventing cancer with diet, lifestyle changes, exercise, and the use of various Ayurvedic compounds, most notably the extract of Semicarpus anacardium nut and the flowers of Calotropis procera, as reported by Smit in 1995.
The Best Alternative Medicine Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier 2000
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Studies on the mechanism of action of Semicarpus anacardium in rheumatoid arthritis.
The Best Alternative Medicine Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier 2000
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Ayurveda places a great deal of emphasis on preventing cancer with diet, lifestyle changes, exercise, and the use of various Ayurvedic compounds, most notably the extract of Semicarpus anacardium nut and the flowers of Calotropis procera, as reported by Smit in 1995.
The Best Alternative Medicine Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier 2000
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Studies on the mechanism of action of Semicarpus anacardium in rheumatoid arthritis.
The Best Alternative Medicine Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier 2000
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Some of them are also village watchmen, and another special avocation of theirs is the collection of the oil of the marking-nut tree (_Semecarpus anacardium_).
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894
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Beginning then with metallic mercury (_argentum vivum_), he considers the poisonous effects of various salts of lead and copper, the vegetable poisons hellebore, anacardium (_anacardis?
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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