|anə|kärdik- noun
Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary anacardic (from New Latin Anacardium + International Scientific Vocabulary -ic ) + acid; originally formed as German anakardsäure
: a brown crystalline vesicant phenolic acid found as the principal constituent of cashew nutshell liquid, held to consist of a mixture of unsaturated derivatives of salicylic acid, and converted to cardanol by decarboxylation