chokecherry†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

an astringent wild cherry of the genus Prunus, especially P. virginianus.

See: chokeberry(def. 2)

Quotations

1793

The wild plumb . . . choak and sand cherries . . . are also natives of this [Assiniboine] country.

1886

He poured over the meat a thick, reddish-colored . . . sauce, which I . . . recognized as boiled dried choke-cherries.

1954

Cranberries, choke-cherries and the tall wild roses strewed their reds and starlets in amongst the gold and green. . . .

2n.

the shrubby tree these cherries grow on.

1809

. . . cutting a green branch of chokecherry and passing it through a piece of fat dried meat, they planted it in the ground close to each pipe.

1961

A . . . pair of brown thrashers have taken over a bushy bunch of choke cherries.