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chokecherry

DEFINITIONS OF: chokecherry

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n a common wild cherry of eastern North America having small bitter black berries favored by birds

Synonyms:
Prunus virginiana, chokecherry tree
Types:
Prunus demissa, Prunus virginiana demissa, western chokecherry
chokecherry of western United States
Type of:
cherry, cherry tree
any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood

n the fruit of the chokecherry tree

Type of:
fruit
the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant
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