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desert fruit cake

desert fruit cake noun: an edible cake or bar created by pounding together seeds, nuts, berries, insects (crickets, katydids, or ants), meat or starchy roots, eaten by Amerindians, early pioneer settlers, and Mormons, in the dry western Great Plains and Rockies foothills, especially around the region of the Great Salt Lake. It is one of the traditional survival foods passed from the Amerinds to the white newcomers for surviving winter starvation.

Noun

desert fruit cake (countable and uncountable, plural desert fruit cakes)

  1. (rare) An edible cake or bar created by pounding together seeds, nuts, berries, insects (crickets, katydids, or ants), meat or starchy roots, eaten by Amerindians, early pioneer settlers, and Mormons, in the dry western Great Plains and Rockies foothills, especially around the region of the Great Salt Lake. It is one of the traditional survival foods passed from the Amerinds to the white newcomers for surviving winter starvation.

Forms of desert fruit cake

pluraldesert fruit cakes

Origin of desert fruit cake

From desert + fruit cake.

Questions about desert fruit cake

What does desert fruit cake mean?
Desert fruit cake means an edible cake or bar created by pounding together seeds, nuts, berries, insects (crickets, katydids, or ants), meat or starchy roots, eaten by Amerindians, early pioneer settlers, and Mormons, in the dry western Great Plains and Rockies foothills, especially around the region of the Great Salt Lake. It is one of the traditional survival foods passed from the Amerinds to the white newcomers for surviving winter starvation.
What part of speech is desert fruit cake?
Desert fruit cake is a noun.
What is the plural of desert fruit cake?
The plural of desert fruit cake is desert fruit cakes.

Words near desert fruit cake in the dictionary

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  3. Desert Fathers
  4. desert fox
  5. desert foxes
  6. desert fruit cake
  7. desert fruit cakes
  8. desert glue
  9. desert hare
  10. desert hares
  11. desert holly

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