0 an open container that stands on the floor inside buildings and is used for putting rubbishin, especially paper
1 a container to hold paper or other small things you want to get rid of
The word "ashcan" is an older synonym for wastebasket, trashcan, or other garbage receptacle, intended for ashes from a fire.
They constitute an evolutionary grade of animals, a wastebasket taxon for any archosaur other than a crocodilian, a pterosaur, or a dinosaur (any basal archosaur).
The unit of additive conjunction can be seen as a wastebasket for irrelevant alternatives.
However, the spittoons function merely as wastebaskets; the last time the spittoon was used for its customary purpose was in the early 20th century.
Some researchers have cautioned against psychogenic amnesia becoming a wastebasket diagnosis when organic amnesia is not apparent.
The multi-tiered treehouse features a rope bridge to a separate, smaller treehouse, a waterslide and wastebaskets.
Wastebasket taxa are by definition either paraphyletic or polyphyletic, and are therefore not considered to be valid taxa under strict cladistic rules of taxonomy.
This is a wastebasket article combining rights that were too important to remain unmentioned, but too unimportant to warrant a separate article status.
