canasta

noun
🔊/kəˈnæstə/
🔊/kəˈnæstə/
[uncountable]
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  1. a card game played with two packs of cards, in which players try to collect sets of cards卡纳斯塔纸牌戏(用两副纸牌,参与者尽量组成牌组)Topics Games and toysc2
    Word Origin1940s: from Spanish (of Uruguayan origin), literally ‘basket’, based on Latin canistrum ‘basket’, from Greek kanastron ‘wicker basket’, from kanna ‘cane, reed’, kannē, of Semitic origin.