chokecherry
nounEtymology From choke + cherry, so called from the extreme astringency of the fresh fruit.
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:
- Related terms
- Virginia bird cherry, bitter-berry, bird cherry, black cherry