different between mooncake vs moonwake

English

moon +? cake

mooncake (plural mooncakes)

A rich, dense Chinese pastry with a variety of fillings, usually to eat in Zhongqiu Festival.

moon +? wake

moonwake (plural not attested)

The reflection of moonlight on a body of water.
- 1901, Daniel A. Goodsell, Nature and Character at Granite Bay
  I was long puzzled to know why this moonwake always followed as I walked […]
- 2006, The Atlantic, Word Fugitives
  Mariners sometimes call the moving path of light leading to the moon the moonwake, because it looks like the white wash of a ship's wake.

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