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carambola

[ UK /kˌæɹɐmbˈə‍ʊlɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. East Indian tree bearing deeply ridged yellow-brown fruit
  2. deeply ridged yellow-brown tropical fruit; used raw as a vegetable or in salad or when fully ripe as a dessert

How To Use carambola In A Sentence

  • In the street markets the aroma of mangos and star-shaped carambola fruit jostles with the pungent smell of fresh seafood. Rio de Janeiro
  • Why did New Zealand accept a variation to the Australian New Zealand Food Standard code that will allow irradiated mango, papaya, mangosteen, litchi, breadfruit, carambola, custard apple and rambutan to be imported into New Zealand?
  • This is a modified billiards table, covered with green baize, as is normal, but oval rather than rectangular and without pockets — a feature of carambola, where players score points by "caroming" their cue ball off the opponent's cue and object balls on a single shot. Orozco Proves That Size Isn't Everything
  • ‘Asam’ refers to the sourness of the fruit, which is related to the sweeter carambola.
  • If you are growing custard apples, bananas, sapodillas and carambolas, they could all do with a dressing of citrus and fruit tree fertiliser spread evenly around under the leaf canopy.
  • They were picking carambola, or starfruit, and it tasted like bubblegum. Times, Sunday Times
  • Carambola is rich in nutrition and having an evident effective health.
  • Jamaican cooks have rediscovered their native tangy fruits, including ackee (the reddish-yellow fruit of an evergreen tree), carambola, and ortanique (a cross between an orange and a tangerine).
  • The carambola, or five-finger fruit, has a mild but sweet taste, and a thinnish skin.
  • My lobster consommé was not the usual salted brown water, but a subtly tasting hot lake surrounding an island of crispy shrimp, carambola and tomato salad.
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