English Explanatory Dictionary

bakeapple

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The cloudberry, Rubus chamaemorus

Word forms

bakeapple bakeapples baked-apple

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".

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