canasta

noun2

1. •
   A card game similar to rummy and played using two packs, where the object is to meld groups of the same rank.

   • Modern American Canasta is a younger cousin of the game of Canasta I explain here. — 2011
2. •
   A meld of seven cards in a game of canasta.

   • Groups of seven of a kind are called canastas, and before a player can go out he or his partner must have at least one canasta. — 1949