The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chokeberry \Choke"ber`ry\, n. (Bot.) The small apple-shaped or pear-shaped fruit of an American shrub ( Pyrus arbutifolia) growing in damp thickets; also, the shrub.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Either of two species in ''Aronia'', formerly and sometimes in ''Photinia'', deciduous shrubs, native to Russia and eastern North America and most commonly found in wet woods and swamps. 2 The fruit of such a shrub.
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "chokeberry".
She also explained how the chokeberry was gathered, then pulped on a stone mortar and made into sun-dried cakes and how it could be mixed with dried meats to make pemmican.
Dana fell silent, concentrating on the nearly invisible trail winding among the broom sage and chokeberry shrubs.
It seemed entirely possible that in a town such as this, a person might walk along the riverbank one bright afternoon and simply disappear, swallowed up in a tangle of chokeberry and woodbine.
Twenty minutes later, two members of the town police clambered through the chokeberry and the holly, down to the banks of the Haddan, where they waited uneasily for the forensics team from Hamilton to arrive.
The snow base, six inches, obscured most of the seeds that the flaming bird liked to eat, but light winds kept a few delicacies dropping, including some still-succulent chokeberry seeds.
She needed to collect some chokeberry root for the cer- emony planned for the following night, and she knew where some of it was growing, in an arroyo not far from the mouth of the cave.
Century plants grew here-the people cut strips from them to make mes- cal-as well as a profusion of chokeberry plants.
The turning led nowhere else but up to the Jcssop residence - a grandiose Gothic house whose dark spires we could already discern through the chokeberries and manzanita.