chokecherry

English

A blooming chokecherry tree.

Alternative forms

• choke cherry

Etymology

• choke +‎ cherry

Noun

chokecherry (plural chokecherries)

1. Any of several American wild cherry trees, especially Prunus virginiana.
   • 1981, Bradford Angier, Field Guide to Medicinal Wild Plants:

     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 . . .

2. The fruit of this plant.
   • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster 2014, p. 72:

     There were handfuls of chokecherries for dessert and a lemonade made from sumac.

Translations

tree

• Cheyenne: ménó'e, vénôho'kôhtse
• German: Virginische Traubenkirsche f
• Navajo: kʼįįshzhíní
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: virginiahegg m

• Swedish: virginiahägg c
• Ukrainian: черемха f (čeremxa) (Canada [by analogy with European bird cherry])

fruit

• Blackfoot: pákkii'p
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• Ukrainian: черемха f (čeremxa) (Canada [by analogy with European bird cherry])

See also

• Virginia bird cherry
• bitter-berry
• bird cherry
• black cherry