cedar apple

noun

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

Origin of cedar apple

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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