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chokecherries

chokecherries is the plural of chokecherry.

Meaning of chokecherry

Noun

chokecherry (plural chokecherries)

  1. Any of several American wild cherry trees, especially Prunus virginiana.
    • The youngster-loved chokecherry grows both as a bushy shrub and as a tree seldom higher than 22 feet, its branches bending with clusters of darkening red or blackish purple berrylike drupes . . .1981, Bradford Angier, Field Guide to Medicinal Wild Plants
  2. The fruit of this plant.
    • There were handfuls of chokecherries for dessert and a lemonade made from sumac.2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 72

Questions about chokecherries

What is chokecherries the plural of?
Chokecherries is the plural of chokecherry.

Words near chokecherries in the dictionary

  1. chokeberry
  2. chokebore
  3. chokebored
  4. chokebores
  5. chokeboring
  6. chokecherries
  7. chokecherry
  8. chokecoil
  9. chokecoils
  10. choked
  11. choked a darkie

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