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A common wild cherry of eastern North America having small bitter black berries favored by birds
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chokecherry
Word definitions for chokecherry in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of several American wild cherry trees, especially ''Prunus virginiana''. 2 The fruit of this plant
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the fruit of the chokecherry tree a common wild cherry of eastern North America having small bitter black berries favored by birds [syn: chokecherry tree , Prunus virginiana ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chokecherry \Choke"cher`ry\, n. (Bot.) The astringent fruit of a species of wild cherry ( Prunus Virginiana ); also, the bush or tree which bears such fruit.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A robin was still feeding on the few remaining black cherries; the chokecherries are long picked off. ▪ I picked my first blackberries on the way, and noted that the chokecherries were ripe but the black cherries still green.
Usage examples of chokecherry.
The squatty-nosed jeep was well hidden, back from the road in a wide coulee, its dark green color blending in with thick-growing chokecherry bushes.
In return the Blooms had received bottles of homemade chokecherry wine, a leg of mutton, Hal-loween pumpkins, even hay bales for their two Shetland ponies, Orangutan and Sunflower.
They were spread out in a ragged line, moving slowly, hacking away at the chokecherries with brush hooks and axes, stopping occasionally to take photographs or scribble notes.
From where I was crouched behind a thicket of chokecherry bushes I could not see who was driving.
Of course, that was because I had dropped it behind the chokecherry bushes.
She spread chokecherry jelly on the muffin, then changed her mind and scraped it off.
No early snow had trampled down the thick, rebellious field grass or stripped the blood red chokecherry bushes of their summer splendor.
The driveway wound past spotlit boulders, tall, creaking lodgepole pines, stands of white-skinned aspens, thickets of chokecherry bushes, and blue spruces in perfect Christmas-tree shapes.
I peered in at rows of chokecherry and redcurrant jellies, strawberry conserve with champagne, and plum jam.
Here, with the warm sun and the soft morning breeze on his face, touching the chokecherry bushes and the needletips of the pines, life was what it ought to be.
They had chosen a spot up a creek, sheltered from the mainstream of the river by a clump of chokecherry brush.
At last the island was abandoned to the ospreys and the chokecherry bushes, its very surface unstable and dangerous, shunned by the mainland townspeople.
Just up from the stony beach, the sawgrass and chokecherry bushes began.
He grabbed the slender trunk of a chokecherry bush, swung himself over the edge, and scrabbled on the slippery walls of the shaft, trying to find a purchase with his feet.
They burst through a fringe of chokecherry into shaggy green pines, dappled sunlight, ferns, boulders protruding from a cover of dead needles, the land sloping away sharply.