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Canasta

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Noun

1. basket rummy, canasta, meld

a form of rummy using two decks of cards and four jokers; jokers and deuces are wild; the object is to form groups of the same rank

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Canasta

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noun
1. 
a card game for two to six players who seek to amass points by declaring sets of cards
2. Also called: meld
a declared set in this game, containing seven or more like cards, worth 500 points if the canasta is pure or 300 if wild (containing up to three jokers)

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Canasta

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noun
a card game, a variation of rummy, usually for two or four players, using a double deck of cards and four jokers

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Canasta

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n.
1. A card game for two to six players, requiring two or three decks of cards, in which the object is to obtain melds of three or more cards of the same rank.
2. A meld of seven cards having the same rank in this game.

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