Editing Cashew (section)

==Etymology==

The English name derives from the Portuguese name for the fruit of the cashew tree: {{wikt-lang|pt|Caju}} ({{IPA|pt|kaˈʒu}}), also known as {{wikt-lang|pt|acaju}}, which itself is from the [[Tupi language|Tupi]] word {{lang|tup|acajú}}, literally meaning "nut that produces itself".<ref name=morton /><ref name=cabi/>

The [[generic name (biology)|generic name]] ''Anacardium'' is composed of the Greek prefix ''ana-'' ({{langx|grc|[[wikt:c-|ἀνά-]]|aná|up, upward|label=none}}), the Greek ''cardia'' ({{langx|grc|καρδία|kardía|heart|label=none}}), and the [[Neo-Latin]] suffix {{wikt-lang|la|-ium}}. It possibly refers to the heart shape of the fruit,<ref>{{cite book|last=Quattrocchi|first=Umberto|title=World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-37OBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA266|year=2016|publisher=CRC|isbn=978-1-4822-5064-0|page=266|quote= referring to the shape of the fruit}}</ref> to "the top of the fruit stem"<ref>''Merriam-Webster'': "from the heartlike shape of the top of the fruit stem"</ref> or to the seed.<ref>{{cite book|author=George Milbry Gould|title=An Illustrated Dictionary of Medicine, Biology and Allied Sciences: Including the Pronunciation, Accentuation, Derivation, and Definition of the Terms Used in Medicine, Anatomy, Surgery ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vlZQAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA73|year=1898|publisher=P. Blakiston|page=73|quote= {{lang|grc|ἀνά}}, up; {{lang|grc|καρδία}}, the heart, from its heart-shaped seeds}}</ref>  The word ''anacardium'' was earlier used to refer to ''[[Semecarpus anacardium]]'' (the marking nut tree) before [[Carl Linnaeus]] transferred it to the cashew; both plants are in the same family.<ref>{{cite book|author=Hugh F. Glen|title=What's in a Name|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eMgaXGsBEWIC&pg=PA3|year=2004|publisher=Jacana|isbn=978-1-77009-040-8|page=3|quote= (Greek ana = upwards + kardia = heart); applied by 16th-century apothecaries to the fruit of the marking nut, ''Semecarpus anacardium'', and later used by Linnaeus as a generic name for the cashew.}}</ref> The [[epithet]] ''occidentale'' derives from the Western (or Occidental) world.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thefreedictionary.com/occidental|publisher=The Free Dictionary|title=Occidental|access-date=6 March 2020|date=2020}}</ref>

The plant has diverse [[common name]]s in various languages among its wide distribution range,<ref name=cabi/> including {{Lang|fr|anacardier}} ([[French language|French]]) with the fruit referred to as ''{{Lang|fr|pomme de cajou}}'',<ref name="dyphon" /> ''{{wikt-lang|pt|caju}}'' ({{IPA|pt|kaˈʒu}}), or ''{{wikt-lang|pt|acaju}}'' (Portuguese).<ref name=morton /><ref name=cabi/>