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chokeberries

  • plural
    of chokeberry.
    chokeberry
    noun
    the berrylike fruit of any North American shrub of the genus Aronia, of the rose family, especially A. arbutifolia red chokeberry, A. melanocarpa black chokeberry, or A. prunifolia purple chokeberry.

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Like the other weekend, an ovenbird and seven Northern Flickers and a couple unusual catbirds stopped in to fuel up on my red chokeberries and high-bush berries.

From New York Times Oct. 15, 2021

Prospect Park in May is a commotion of beauty: meadows and dense rambles, hills and hollows, everything covered in chokeberries, spicebush, violets, flowering hawthorns, magnolias and lindens.

From New York Times Feb. 17, 2021

Over the course of an afternoon here on his farm in the Finger Lakes region, he poured crazy, often-transcendent ciders that blend apples with fruits like chokeberries or sea-buckthorn fruit or local riesling grapes.

From New York Times Aug. 18, 2017

The headlights sent beams of light dancing through the mountain laurel and chokeberries beside the driveway.

From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor

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