chokecherry
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9.3
- noun
- /ˈtʃoʊkˌtʃɛri/
- US
:
cereza amarga
- I hope they eat pies better than the ones you make, said Rollo, who didn't like the mouthful of pits that came with the chokecherries.
Examples
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They ate a cluster of the tiny chokecherries, and the skin inside their mouths puckered desperately, so that they had to run to the river to drink the water.
Fiction book (1994) -
There were booths selling anything from dog tags to jars of homemade chokecherry jelly.
Fiction book (1998) -
"Come up here in two more weeks and we'll go out after chokecherries."
Fiction book (1993) -
Beyond the chokecherries
Fiction book (2001) -
First thing I seen when I rolled out this morning was a double-breasted robin, drunk as a hoot owl from eating fermented chokecherries.
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Respondents from Nebraska, the Dakotas, and eastern Wyoming chose the chokecherry (Prunus virginiana L.).
Academic text (2003) -
I made a delicious jam using fresh chokecherries picked from the tree.
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"Would you like some homemade chokecherry jelly on your toast?"
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In late summer, we harvested chokecherries to make preserves for the winter.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Chokecherry comes from the parts choke and cherry because the small, sour berries can make you cough or feel like you are 'choking', and early people often cooked them into jam to make them sweet and useful.