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n. Ka sh-u '. Fr., acajou. Ger., CascJiu. The 81. C. flour, C. meal. Flour obtained by grating Jatropha Anacardium occident ale. [B.] C. family. The Anacardiacece. root,j removing its poisonous juice by expre ion and drying, and [B, 75.] C.-gum. A slightly soluble exudation from the trunk of grinding the residue to powder; or by mixing c. starch with water Anacardium occident ale (q. v.) [L, 65.] C.-nut. Fr., noix d'acaand drying in the sun the powder deposited. [B, 172.] C.-plant. jou. Ger., Acajounu , Caschunu . Hind., Kaju. The fruit of The genus Jatropha. C. starch. A starch contained in c.; a Anacardium occident ale. The kernel contains a bland oil and is white powder composed of granules usually le than half as large edible. The juice of the rind is corrosive and epispastic; it is used as those of potato-starch, and shaped like a muller with a rounded to destroy warts, corns, and vegetations, also as a vermifuge and in end. The nucleus is small and circular, or elongated. C. starch making ink. It yields a kind of wine from which a spirit is dis moistened with water and dried on hot plates, or dried in the sun tilled. [A, 479; B; L, 65.] C.-nut tree. The Anacardium occiafter boiling in steam, forms tapioca (q. v.). [B, 81, 172.] C's trauch dentale. [B, 275.] Wild c.-nut tree. The Anacardium rhino- (Ger.). The Jatropha manihot. [B, 180.] C.-wood. The Turcarpus. [B, 19.] nnia occidental is. [B, 275, 282.] C'wurzel (Ger.). The root of [s. 109]