samba

noun

a form of canasta using three decks of cards and six jokers

a lively ballroom dance from Brazil

music composed for dancing the samba

large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds

verb

dance the samba

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