baked-apple

noun

baked-ap·​ple

variants or baked-apple berry or less commonly bakeapple

ˈ⸗ˌ⸗⸗

or bake-apple berry

: cloudberry sense 2

Word History

Etymology

so called from its wrinkly appearance

First Known Use

1775, in the meaning defined above

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