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bakeapple

bakeapple

9.9
A low plant that grows in bogs and makes yellow edible berries
  • noun
  • Canadian
translation icon : mora de los pantanos
  • She made a delicious jam using fresh bakeapples from the bog.

Examples

  • The marsh was filled with ripe bakeapple, ready for picking in early August.

  • Tourists are often surprised by the unique taste of the bakeapple berry.

  • I found a bakeapple bush near the river.

  • The bakeapples are ripe and ready to be picked.

  • She made a delicious jam using fresh bakeapples from the bog.

  • Tourists are often surprised by the unique taste of the bakeapple berry.

  • The marsh was filled with ripe bakeapple, ready for picking in early August.

Synonyms

cloudberry
vsbakeapple
  • UK
1 9.3

A low northern plant that makes small edible orange berries

is a regional alternative rather than the widely used common term
Rubus chamaemorus
vsbakeapple
  • UK
9.9

A low northern plant that makes orange berries you can eat in wet places

is the common alternative name used in everyday speech
baked-apple berry
vsbakeapple
  • UK
9.9

A creeping plant that lives many years and makes soft yellow-orange berries that taste like baked apples

refers to the plant without sensory taste detail

Surface Forms

bakeapple singular
bakeapples plural

Morphology

bakeapple = bake + apple (opaque) = bake + apple

Although built from the words 'bake' and 'apple', the compound names a specific berry (cloudberry) and the sense is not derivable by a B1 learner from 'bake' + 'apple'.

Etymology

Bakeapple names a northern berry called the cloudberry that grows in bogs and has yellow-orange edible fruit. A helpful way to remember it is to see bake + apple because people often baked these soft berries into pies and jams, so the name points to an edible 'apple' of the marsh.