0 an open container that stands on the floor inside buildings and is used for putting rubbishin, especially paper -- 废纸篓，废纸箱
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.
