(US, derogatory, slang) The U.S. state of California.

An edible cake or bar created by compounding seeds, nuts, berries, insects (crickets, katydids, and/or ants) together, eaten by Amerindians and early pioneer settlers, and Mormons, of the dry western Great Plains and Rockies foothills, especially around the region of the Great Salt Lake. It is one of the traditional survival foods passed from the Amerinds to the white newcomers for surviving winter starvation.

plural of desert fruit cake

A beetle (Cotinis mutabilis) that ranges from central Texas across the southwestern United States and Mexico and feeds on cactus, desert trees, and cultivated fruit.

plural of blue sausage fruit

The deciduous shrub Decaisnea fargesii.

Carposina sasakii, found primarily in Asia. / Carposina scirrhosella, found primarily in Europe.

plural of rose-crowned fruit-dove

A species of fruit dove, Ptilinopus regina, of Wallacea and northern and eastern Australia, the males of which have a pink forecrown.

Unethical actions in the service of good intentions will have immoral or unethical consequences.