bakeapple

English

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Etymology

Probably bake +‎ apple, influenced by bake in composite words, as suggested by the Oxford English Dictionary. An apparent folk etymology is French baie, qu'appelle which roughly translates as "what's the name of that berry".

Noun

bakeapple (plural bakeapples)

  1. (Atlantic Canada) The cloudberry, Rubus chamaemorus
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