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STAR FRUIT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does star fruit mean?
• STAR FRUIT (noun)
The noun STAR FRUIT has 1 sense:
1. deeply ridged yellow-brown tropical fruit; used raw as a vegetable or in salad or when fully ripe as a dessert
Familiarity information: STAR FRUIT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Deeply ridged yellow-brown tropical fruit; used raw as a vegetable or in salad or when fully ripe as a dessert
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Synonyms:
carambola; star fruit
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)
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