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cedar apple

American  

noun

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

Etymology

Origin of cedar apple

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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