See Also: anacardium(medicine)
crucible(medicine)
crucible(dictionary)
crucible(encyclopedia)
Crucible, The(dictionary)
crucible(dictionary)
crucible process(encyclopedia)

Crucible, The (oh) and anacardium (medicine)


Crucible, The (oh)



a play by Arthur Miller which describes how innocent women were charged with being witches and cruelly punished by a court of law in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. This play was written in 1953 to show how similar the Salem Witch Trials were to McCarthyism .

anacardium (medicine)


anacardium
<botany> A genus of plants including the cashew tree. See Cashew.

Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Similar to + heart; the fruit of this plant being thought to resemble the heart of a bird.

Source: Websters Dictionary