karambola

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A form of carambola — A tree species native to southern Asia, Averrhoa carambola.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounkarambola (plural karambolas)

plural karambolas

  1. rareRare spelling of carambola.

    Kámrak, better known as country gooseberry, Averrhoa karambola, is of two sorts sweet and bitter.

    1885, Bombay (India : State), Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Volume 18, Part 1, Government Central Press, page 47
    2 more examples

    The large cymose panicles of the pink and crimson coloured, small flowered blossom of Averrhoa Karambola (Karmar) are not quite so fragrant, yet they are not without the grateful odour of honey.

    1892, The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, Volume 7, Issues 3-4, Bombay Natural History Society, page 520

    She nibbled at the green and purple stems and leaves of the oxalis and seasoned her salads with karambola juice.

    1997, Muller, Carl, Children Of The Lion, Penguin Group, page 12
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