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cedar apple
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noun
1.
a brown gall on the branches of the juniper, produced by several rust fungi of the genus
Gymnosporangium.
Origin of
cedar apple
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1840-1850
An Americanism dating back to
1840-50
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Godfrey tasted a
cedar apple
, and immediately was seized with illness.
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