"Cashew" is a word in ENGLISH
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.
And if an increasingly pluralistic America ever decides to commission a new motto, I’m open for business, because I’ve got a better one than E pluribus unum. Tu dormis, tu perdis . . . You snooze, you lose.
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The crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus), found in the tropical parts of America.
Read the complete definitionA substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and …
Read the complete definitionambúlung - A tropical plant, from whose berries an excellent mucilage is obtained and whose roots yield tapioca; a cassava …
Read the complete definitionExtending over all the zones, from the tropics to the polar zones inclusive.
Read the complete definitionThe inhabitants of the tropic, whose shadows in one part of the year are cast to the north, and in …
Read the complete definitionA tropical plant (Cajanus indicus) and its edible seed, a kind of pulse; -- so called from Angola in Western …
Read the complete definitionA resin exuding from a tropical American tree (Hymenaea courbaril), and much used by varnish makers.
Read the complete definitionA black bird of tropical America, the West Indies and Florida (Crotophaga ani), allied to the cuckoos, and remarkable for …
Read the complete definitionA genus of tropical or subtropical plants of the natural order Anonaceae, including the soursop.
Read the complete definitionAn edentate animal of tropical America (the Tamanoir), living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga.
Read the complete definitionA tropical wind blowing steadily in a direction opposite to the trade wind.
Read the complete definitionOne of several species of tropical birds, of the Old World, of the genus Pitta, somewhat resembling the thrushes, and …
Read the complete definitionA red or yellowish-red dyeing material, prepared from the pulp surrounding the seeds of a tree (Bixa orellana) belonging to …
Read the complete definitionThe pulpy fruit of Persea gratissima, a tree of tropical America. It is about the size and shape of a …
Read the complete definitionbabaná - A tropical tree and its edible fruit, soursop, bullock’s heart. (cf. gwabaná id.).
Read the complete definitionbadiáng, bádiang - A tropical plant with very large leaves. Daw badiáng ang dulúnggan níya. His ears are as large …
Read the complete definitionA plant of the family of grasses, and genus Bambusa, growing in tropical countries.
Read the complete definitionA bird of the family Bucconidae, allied to the Cuckoos, having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and …
Read the complete definitionA genus of plants, mostly of tropical America, many species of which are grown as ornamental plants. The leaves are …
Read the complete definitionA large genus of American, mostly tropical, climbing shrubs, having compound leaves and showy somewhat tubular flowers. B. capreolata is …
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