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Etymology

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From cashew +‎ -like.

Adjective

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cashewlike (comparative more cashewlike, superlative most cashewlike)

  1. (rare) Resembling or characteristic of a cashew nut.
    • 1995, Scott Heim, Mysterious skin:
      I baited my hook with another cashewlike worm.
    • 1996, Petru Popescu, Almost Adam:
      ...while the alpha female dug between the banana trees and pulled up a large dried branch with cashewlike nuts hanging from it.
    • 2002, Michael Lowenthal, Avoidance:
      ...a boy curled cashewlike into me, his breath timed with my own chest's rise and fall. How many dozens of hours had I sat like this?