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bakeapple

• 1 n. a low bog-dwelling plant, Rubus chamaemorus, having a solitary white flower followed by a berry that is amber when ripe.

  See also: baking apple  baked-apple  

  • 1775  (1792)  I saw the first baked apples.
  • 1822  (1928)  Here the prevalent plants are . . . the marshberry, and the bake-apple. . . .
  • 1936  Raspberries . . . saskatoons, bake-apples . . . tangled with the buckbrush.

• 2 n. the amber-colored, raspberrylike, edible berry of the bakeapple.

  See also: baked-apple berry  baked-apple  

  • 1778  (1792)  After dinner I went with all my family to Slink Point, where we picked a bowl full of baked apples.
  • 1955  They are taking back with them . . . bakeapples which they had never had before.