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

An Americanism dating back to 1840–50

Example sentences from the Web for cedar apple

  • 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.

    With Spurs of Gold |Frances Nimmo Greene