carambola

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The game's goal is to use one ball to hit the other two in a single shot, this is called "carambola" in spanish.

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  1. noun An ornamental evergreen tree (Averrhoa carambola), native to southeast Asia and having crisp, edible, yellow to orange, longitudinally ridged fruits that are star-shaped in cross section.
  2. noun The fruit of this plant. Also called star fruit.

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  • A few weeks later my wife and I were visiting an exotic fruit show, and bought him a small carambola to plant, so he could replace the one nearly destroyed by the hurricane. —  Hidden City
  • The game's goal is to use one ball to hit the other two in a single shot, this is called "carambola" in spanish. —  Mac Game Files
  • In a multiplayer game, you keep shooting as long as you make a carambola, and the winner is the one with the most carambolas accumulated. —  Mac Game Files
  • Try to predict the collision and bounce path before you shoot in order to make a carambola. —  Mac Game Files
  • If you ever played carambola for real you'll love this download. —  Mac Game Files
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  1. Portuguese, perhaps from Marathi karambal.

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  1. East Indian
 

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/kæˈræmbələ/
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