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CARAMBOLA

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deeply ridged yellow-brown tropical fruit; used raw as a vegetable or in salad or when fully ripe as a dessert

Synonyms:

carambola; star fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("carambola" is a kind of...):

edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

Holonyms ("carambola" is a part of...):

Averrhoa carambola; carambola; carambola tree (East Indian tree bearing deeply ridged yellow-brown fruit)

Sense 2

Meaning:

East Indian tree bearing deeply ridged yellow-brown fruit

Synonyms:

Averrhoa carambola; carambola; carambola tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("carambola" is a kind of...):

fruit tree (tree bearing edible fruit)

Meronyms (parts of "carambola"):

carambola; star fruit (deeply ridged yellow-brown tropical fruit; used raw as a vegetable or in salad or when fully ripe as a dessert)

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