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STAR FRUIT
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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 ("star fruit" is a kind of...):
edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)
Holonyms ("star fruit" is a part of...):
Averrhoa carambola; carambola; carambola tree (East Indian tree bearing deeply ridged yellow-brown fruit)