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Etymology

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From Anacardium (generic name of the cashew) + Latin oleum (oil).

Noun

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cardol

  1. (organic chemistry) An oily yellow liquid extracted from the shell of the cashew nut.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cardol”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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