chokecherry

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A blooming chokecherry tree.

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Etymology

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

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.
    • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 72:
      There were handfuls of chokecherries for dessert and a lemonade made from sumac.

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