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desert fruit cake

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.02 in modern English

Syllables
de-sert fruit -cake
IPA
25
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From desert + fruit cake.

Usage

Inflected Forms

desert fruit cakes (plural)

Phrases

fruit cake Mormon cricket

Frequently Paired Words

fruit cake Mormon cricket

Questions

What does desert fruit cake mean?
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.
Where does desert fruit cake come from?
From desert + fruit cake.

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