Meaning & use
carambola fruit
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Meaning
nouncountable or uncountable
The yellow-green ridged fruit of a small tropical tree, which forms a star shape when cut across.
Grammar: Countable when you mean individual fruits, uncountable when talking about the food in general: a carambola fruit, some carambola fruit.
Patterns
- a carambola fruit
- slices of carambola fruit
- carambola fruit juice
She sliced a carambola fruit and arranged the pieces on the plate.
Carambola fruit is often eaten raw in salads in Southeast Asia.
The juice of the carambola fruit tastes both sweet and slightly sour.
Word forms
| plural | carambola fruits |
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Common combinations
- ripe carambola fruit
- Choose ripe carambola fruit with firm, shiny ridges.
- slice carambola fruit
- Slice the carambola fruit crosswise to show the star shape.
- carambola fruit tree
- A carambola fruit tree can grow taller than a house.
- fresh carambola fruit
- Markets sell fresh carambola fruit from late summer.
Synonyms and how they differ
- star fruit
- This is the everyday name and is far more common in shops and recipes; carambola is the more technical term.
Word family
- carambola noun
- The tree or the fruit itself, without the added word fruit.
Practice
Which sentence uses the term correctly?
Choose one answer.
The fruit is named for its star shape when cut across. Option An is wrong because you drink juice, not fruit itself; option C is wrong because it is a fruit, not a vegetable; option D is wrong because you plant a tree, not the fruit.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “carambola fruit”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.