"desert fruit cake" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: desert fruit cakes [plural]
Etymology: From desert + fruit cake. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|desert|fruit cake}} desert + fruit cake Head templates: {{en-noun|head=desert fruit cake}} desert fruit cake (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. Tags: rare Related terms: fruit cake, Mormon cricket
    Sense id: en-desert_fruit_cake-en-noun-y24v7Gy3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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