acajou

plural acajous

1. countableuncountableThe cashew tree.First known use the late 16th century.

   The head man's fury shouted out in the curve of the acajous—he insulted hunters, gendarmes, planters, and the transparent clouds lowering with the sky—before sticking the gun barrel under the chin thrust deep into solitude and a suffering that sees all.

   2020, Betsy Wing, transl., Mahagony^([sic]), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, translation of original by Édouard Glissant, →ISBN, page 105

2. countableuncountableA cashew nut.First known use the late 16th century.
3. countableuncountableThe wood from the mahogany tree or other trees from the family Meliaceae.
4. countableuncountableA moderate reddish brown that is slightly yellower and stronger than mahogany.