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UK
/kˌæɹɐmbˈəʊlɐ/
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NOUN
- East Indian tree bearing deeply ridged yellow-brown fruit
- 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.