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chokecherry en · NOUN

Etymology

From choke + cherry, so called from the extreme astringency of the fresh fruit.

Meanings

1. Any of several American wild cherry trees, especially Prunus virginiana.
   • 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:
2. The fruit of this plant.
   • There were handfuls of chokecherries for dessert and a lemonade made from sumac. 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 72:

Forms

Relateds

Virginia bird cherry · bird cherry · bitter-berry · black cherry

Translations (14)

chy ménó'e (tree) · chl 'atut (tree) · uk черемха (tree) · uk черемха (fruit) · nv kʼįįshzhiní (tree) · ca cirerer de Virgínia (tree) · taa dodetl'edzi ch'ejege' (fruit) · de Virginische Traubenkirsche (tree) · chy vénôho'kôhtse (tree) · sq carac (tree) · bla pákkii'p (fruit) · nb virginiahegg (tree) · sv virginiahägg (tree) · chl 'atut (fruit)