Guava monkey or cashew (Anacardium occidentale) is a kind of Anacardiaceae plant originating from Brazil and has "fruit" that can be eaten. The more famous of cashew cashews are cashew nuts, cashew nuts or cashew nuts; seeds are usually dried and fried to be used as a variety of snacks. Botanically, this plant is not at all a member of the jambu (Myrtaceae) or nuts (Fabaceae), but rather closer kinship with mango (Anacardiaceae tribe).
Also known by various names such as cashew mèdè (Sd.); guava mété or jambu ménté (Jw.); jhambu monyèt (Md.); jambu dwipa, jambu jipang, nyambu monyèt (Bl.); nyambuk nyambb (Sas.); jambu érang, jambu monyé (Mink.); cashew dipa (Banj.); buwah monkey (Timor); buwah yaki (Manado); buwa yakis, wo yakis (North Sulawesi); yaki buwa (Ternate, Tidore); buwa jakis (Galela); jambu daré, guava (Mak.); can sèrĕng, can tapĕsi (Bug.); and others. [1]
In English it is called cashew (tree), which is derived from the Portuguese word to name the fruit, caju, which is also a loan of the name in Tupi, acajú. While the name of his surname (Anacardium) refers to the form of a false fruit that is like a heart reversed.
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