chokecherry
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From choke + cherry, so called from the extreme astringency of the fresh fruit.
Noun
[edit]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 . . .
- 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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