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Webster 1913 Edition


Chokeberry

Choke′berˊry

,
Noun.
(Bot.)
The small apple-shaped or pear-shaped fruit of an American shrub (
Pyrus arbutifolia
) growing in damp thickets; also, the shrub.

Definition 2024


chokeberry

chokeberry

English

The purple chokeberry is a hybrid of the red and black chokeberries.

Noun

chokeberry (plural chokeberries)

  1. Either of two species in Aronia, formerly and sometimes in Photinia, deciduous shrubs, native to Russia and eastern North America and most commonly found in wet woods and swamps.
  2. The fruit of such a shrub.

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