chokeberry
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- noun
- /ˈtʃoʊkˌbɛri/
- Specialized
:
aronia
- She made a delicious jam using the ripe berries from the chokeberry plants in her garden.
- red chokeberry
- black chokeberry
- chokeberry shrub
Examples
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Chokeberry seedling with Christmas fern.
Blog text (22) -
Photo (color): In October, rock sculpture and red chokeberry provide colorful contrasts at Dolly Sods.
Academic text (2001) -
This red chokeberry seedling looked wonderful contrasted with the green of the Christmas ferns.
Blog text (22) -
Some fields had been cleared for pasturage, but the rest was a mix of juniper, chokeberry, and blueberry.
Fiction book (2000) -
I would replace them either with Serviceberry (Amelanchier) or Red Chokeberry (Aronia arbutifolia).
Blog text (6) -
Some of the shrubs are black chokeberry, blue huckleberry, silky willow, swamp azalea, and sweet gale.
Academic text (2011) -
The black chokeberry shrub produces clusters of dark, tart berries that can be harvested in late summer.
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The chokeberry is known for its beautiful white flowers that attract pollinators in the spring.
Synonyms
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A small shrub that produces dark berries, also called chokeberry
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Chokeberry comes from the parts choke ('to have trouble breathing') and berry ('a small fruit'). The plant was named this because its berries are very tart and can make your mouth feel tight or make you cough, so the shrub was thought of as having a 'choking' fruit.