Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A deciduous North American shrub or small tree (Prunus virginiana) in the rose family, having elongate clusters of small white flowers and astringent, dark red to nearly black fruit.
- n. The fruit of this plant.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The popular name of an American species of wild cherry, Prunus Virginiana, remarkable for the astringency of its fruit.
- n. In mining, choke-damp; after-damp.
Wiktionary
- n. Any of several American wild cherry trees, especially Prunus virginiana
- n. The fruit of this plant
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) The astringent fruit of a species of wild cherry (Prunus Virginiana); also, the bush or tree which bears such fruit.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the fruit of the chokecherry tree
- n. a common wild cherry of eastern North America having small bitter black berries favored by birds
Etymologies
- From its bitter fruit. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I was thinking they meant the chokecherry, which is just another one of the cherry trees.”
“The Kempels, who live in Casselton, make wine from North Dakota grown fruits such as chokecherry and rhubarb.”
“A clement breeze, overloaded with the scent of the chokecherry blossoms, eddied around me as I headed to the storage shed.”
“Bushes of chokecherry and serviceberry crowded close under the shade of the aspens.”
“I sank my teeth into a chokecherry stick against the pain.”
“As chokecherry and serviceberry blossoms fade into a plump, hot August, I too expect fall and then winter.”
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“Nope but my wife has a good recipe for chokecherry dacquris.”
“Ishawooa, Will you share your recipe for chokecherry dacquris?”
“Rolls dipped in cream and chokecherry syrup sounds DELISH!”
“One memory that stands out in my mind were her delicious homemade rolls that we would dip in fresh cream mixed with homemade chokecherry syrup.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘chokecherry’.
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Coal Mining Terms
Coal mining has engendered fascinating subcultures in industry, labor, music, folklore, environment and energy. It has a rich vocabulary as well, and I've encountered some gorgeous mining words. I...
firedamp, scrip, bituminous, anthracite, company store, blackdamp, brattice, bug dust, tipple, whitedamp, float dust, fly ash and 136 more...
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Jams, Jellies, and Preserves
I've thought of a few of the most common sorts. Additions sought.
traffic, door, toe, fish, wildlife, bean, strawberry, apricot, raspberry, blackberry, boysenberry, grape and 51 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (C)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
cacophony, cad, cajole, calamity, camomile, camphor, candlemas, candy apple, canopy, canticle, caparison, caravan and 304 more...
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Compounds That Look Freakish
You know who you are, freakish compounds. Though very useful, some of these words just don't seem right together--or, their meanings are so far from what the two (or more) component words suggest t...
nightjar, bullfinch, grassquit, bananaquit, ovenbird, waxwing, stonechat, wheatear, bushtit, wrentit, starthroat, godwit and 158 more...
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Trees!
mahogany, sequoia, balsa, sandalwood, tamarind, balsam, eucalyptus, birch, willow, buttonwood, evergreen, loblolly and 501 more...
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Miscellany, pt. c
chokedamp, clitter, circumbendibus, catmint, cacoëpy, co-feoffee, caribou, conturbation, chalicothere, calamus, cochineal, cincture and 168 more...
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Quenelles of Random Palavery
More randomly-garnered terms from the world of words that don't quite yet fit into my other lists.
Goddidit, barcelona, filigrain, good-natured, ill-natured, half-bit, endosome, underplaying, parotid, denormalization, sleightgeist, wheezing and 2334 more...
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Bright's Passage
tendril, perfunctorily, slurry, emplacement, foray, dray, reverie, rill, chokecherry, ninebark, ess, meep and 30 more...
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Fruity words
All fruits are not created equal. Nor are all words for fruits. These are my favorite fruit words and not necessarily my favorite fruits!
pomegranate, pome, pomelo, kiwi, rambutan, tomato, breadfruit, durian, tangerine, raspberry, huckleberry, elderberry and 5 more...
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vegetation
triffid, Venus flytrap, saprophyte, rhizome, thallus, knockout moss, carnivorous syndrome, protocarnivorous, paracarnivorous, subcarnivorous, borderline carnivore, touch-me-not and 70 more...
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ogham
birch, rowan, alder, willow, ash, hawthorn, oak, holly, hazel, apple, blackthorn, elder and 79 more...
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bunch of fruits
I like fruit. And I like the names of fruits – well, of these fruits at least.
persimmon, kaki, pomegranate, apple, pear, peach, fig, date, grapefruit, orange, banana, japanese persimmon and 39 more...
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compound words
My favourites.
birdbath, gallowglass, lamplight, chokecherry, lightbox, riptide, softshoe, snowshed, bluebird, matchbox, sugarcane, nightcap and 64 more...
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Dharshene Somehow this word defines today, i'm literally feeling a chokecherry in my throat and I love saying it one two many times. Chokecherry, chokecherry … chokecherry! Jun 27, 2012
hernesheir My Idaho family, since the mid-1800's, have yearly, in late summer and fall, collected the almost inedible bitter drupes of the chokecherry to boil down or juice to make delicious jellies and syrups. These locally produced preserves have in the last decade or so emerged from seasonally-produced pioneer staples into the local and wider tourist markets. Mar 15, 2011