"desert fruit cake" meaning in English

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Noun

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 (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. Tags: countable, rare, uncountable Related terms: fruit cake, Mormon cricket
    Sense id: en-desert_fruit_cake-en-noun-7imGT7Ts Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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