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desert fruit cakes

desert fruit cakes is the plural of desert fruit cake.

Meaning of desert fruit cake

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.

Questions about desert fruit cakes

What is desert fruit cakes the plural of?
Desert fruit cakes is the plural of desert fruit cake.

Words near desert fruit cakes in the dictionary

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

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