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Webster 1913 Edition


Chokecherry

Choke′cherˊry

,
Noun.
(Bot.)
The astringent fruit of a species of wild cherry (
Prunus Virginiana
); also, the bush or tree which bears such fruit.

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chokecherry

chokecherry

English

A blooming chokecherry tree.

Alternative forms

  • choke cherry

Noun

chokecherry (plural chokecherries)

  1. Any of several American wild cherry trees, especially Prunus virginiana.
    • 1981, Bradford Angier, Field Guide to Medicinal Wild Plants,
      The youngster-loved chokecherry grows both as a bushy shrub and as a tree seldom higher than 22 feet, its branches bending with clusters of darkening red or blackish purple berrylike drupes . . .
  2. The fruit of this plant

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