Carambola it shares some common names. It is also called "star fruit" in English (including Jamaican English and Philippine English) and literally translates into "Stjernefrugt" in Danish, "Sternfrucht" in German, and "Stjärnfrukt" in Swedish. In Spanish, it is known as "carambola", "carambolo", "tamarindo chino", "tamarindo culí", "balimbín" (Philippine Spanish, from Tagalog "balimbing", plural is "balimbines"), and "fruta china" (Ecuador). In maritime Southeast Asia, it is known as "belimbing" in Indonesian and Malay and "balimbíng" or "saranate" in Tagalog. Carambola Carambola, or star fruit, is the fruit of "Averrhoa carambola", a species of tree native to Indonesia, the Philippines, and throughout Malesia.
Common name languages; the word for "cat", for instance, is easily recognizable in most Germanic and many Romance languages. Many vernacular names, however, are restricted to a single country and colloquial names to local districts. Common names are used in the writings of both professionals and laymen. Lay people sometimes object to the use of scientific names over common names, but the use of scientific names can be defended, as it is in these remarks from a book on marine fish: In scientific binomial nomenclature, names commonly are derived from classical or modern Latin or Greek or Latinised forms of vernacular words