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Webster 1913 Edition
Chokeberry
Choke′berˊry
,Noun.
(Bot.)
The small apple-shaped or pear-shaped fruit of an American shrub (
Pyrus arbutifolia
) growing in damp thickets; also, the shrub. Definition 2024
chokeberry
chokeberry
English
The purple chokeberry is a hybrid of the red and black chokeberries.
Noun
chokeberry (plural chokeberries)
- 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.
- The fruit of such a shrub.