Bakeapple

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The cloudberry, Rubus chamaemorus Atlantic-Canada
  2. 2
    creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries wordnet

Etymology

Probably bake + apple, influenced by bake in composite words, as suggested by the Oxford English Dictionary. An apparent folk etymology is French baie, qu'appelle which roughly translates as "what's the name of that berry".

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