"desert fruit cake" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: desert fruit cakes [plural]
Etymology: 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. An edible cake or bar created by compounding seeds, nuts, berries, insects (crickets, katydids, and/or ants) together, eaten by Amerindians and early pioneer settlers, and Mormons, of 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. Related terms: fruit cake, Mormon cricket
    Sense id: en-desert_fruit_cake-en-noun-V~~nMGme Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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