bakeapple

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

a low bog-dwelling plant, Rubus chamaemorus, having a solitary white flower followed by a berry that is amber when ripe.

Quotations

1775

I saw the first baked apples.

1822

Here the prevalent plants are . . . the marshberry, and the bake-apple. . . .

1936

Raspberries . . . saskatoons, bake-apples . . . tangled with the buckbrush.

2n.

the amber-colored, raspberrylike, edible berry of the bakeapple.

1778

After dinner I went with all my family to Slink Point, where we picked a bowl full of baked apples.

1955

They are taking back with them . . . bakeapples which they had never had before.