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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. Definition 2024
chokecherry
chokecherry
English
Alternative forms
- choke cherry
Noun
chokecherry (plural chokecherries)
- 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 . . .
- 1981, Bradford Angier, Field Guide to Medicinal Wild Plants,
- The fruit of this plant
Translations
tree
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fruit
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See also
- Virginia bird cherry
- bitter-berry
- bird cherry
- black cherry