star fruit

1. 1.

   deeply ridged yellow-brown tropical fruit; used raw as a vegetable or in salad or when fully ripe as a dessert

   Synonymscarambola

   Broaderedible fruit

   Part ofcarambola

Questions about star fruit

What does star fruit mean?

star fruit means "deeply ridged yellow-brown tropical fruit; used raw as a vegetable or in salad or when fully ripe as a dessert".

What is another word for star fruit?

Close synonyms include carambola. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is star fruit a common word?

star fruit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.