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chokeberry

/ˈtʃəʊkbəri/

chokeberry noun: 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.

chokeberry: either of two species in Aronia, formerly and sometimes in Photinia, deciduous shrubs, native to...
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Noun

chokeberry (plural chokeberries)

  1. 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.
  2. The fruit of such a shrub.

chokeberry meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Arabic

chokeberry in Tamil

இது பழவகைகளுள் ஒன்றாகும்

chokeberry in Bengali

এই ধরনের গুল্মের ফল

chokeberry in Arabic

deciduous shrub in genus Aronia
أَرُونِيَة ʔarūniya

Forms of chokeberry

pluralchokeberries

Origin of chokeberry

From choke + berry, describing the astringency of the fruits, which are inedible when raw.

Words formed from chokeberry

Questions about chokeberry

What does chokeberry mean?
Chokeberry means 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.
What is chokeberry in Tamil?
Chokeberry in Tamil is இது பழவகைகளுள் ஒன்றாகும். See Chokeberry meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is chokeberry?
Chokeberry is a noun.
How do you pronounce chokeberry?
Chokeberry is pronounced /ˈtʃəʊkbəri/.
What is the plural of chokeberry?
The plural of chokeberry is chokeberries.

Words near chokeberry in the dictionary

  1. choke-hold
  2. choke-holds
  3. choke-me
  4. choke-priest
  5. chokeberries
  6. chokeberry
  7. chokebore
  8. chokebored
  9. chokebores
  10. chokeboring
  11. chokecherries

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chokeberry (page history and authors); chokeberry (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); chokeberry (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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