chokeberry

English

The purple chokeberry is a hybrid of the red and black chokeberries.

Etymology

choke +‎ berry, describing the astringency of the fruits, which are inedible when raw.

Noun

chokeberry (plural chokeberries)

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.

Derived terms

• black chokeberry
• red chokeberry
• purple chokeberry

Translations

deciduous shrub in genus Aronia

• Finnish: aronia (fi)
• Korean: 아로니아속 (aroniasok)
• Norwegian: svartsurbærbusk n
• Polish: aronia (pl) f
• Swedish: aronia (sv) c

fruit of such a shrub

• Norwegian: svartsurbær n
• Polish: aronia (pl) f
• Turkish: aronya

Further reading

• chokeberry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Aronia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Aronia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• chokeberry at USDA Plants database