cedar apple

noun

1. a brown gall on the branches of the juniper, produced by several rust fungi of the genus Gymnosporangium.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cedar apple¹

An Americanism dating back to 1840–50

Example Sentences

Godfrey ate only one cedar-apple, but was at once taken very sick, and his friends believed that he had been poisoned by the emir.

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Godfrey tasted a cedar apple, and immediately was seized with illness.

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