carambola, star fruit
(noun) deeply ridged yellow-brown tropical fruit; used raw as a vegetable or in salad or when fully ripe as a dessert
carambola, carambola tree, Averrhoa carambola
(noun) East Indian tree bearing deeply ridged yellow-brown fruit
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Presumably from Marathi karambal, via Portuguese.
carambola (plural carambolas)
A tree species native of southern Asia, Averrhoa carambola.
The fruit of this tree, more commonly known as star fruit.
A yellow colour, like that of a carambola.
Source: Wiktionary
Ca`ram*bo"la, n. (Bot.)
Definition: An East Indian tree (Averrhoa Carambola), and its acid, juicy fruit; called also Coromandel gooseberry.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
19 November 2024
(noun) bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
