chokeberry
Americannoun
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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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the plant that bears this fruit.
noun
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any of various North American rosaceous shrubs of the genus Aronia
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the red or purple bitter fruit of any of these shrubs
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When those gatherings finally happen, “spirit plates” — with the ancestors’ favorite foods, such as fried ribs, chokeberry jams and roasted buffalo — are served for attendees.
From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2021
On the contrary they eat the most undesirable of the wild fruit, chokeberry, pokeberry, Virginia creeper, bitter-sweet and sumac, as well as large quantities of ragweed seeds.
From Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation by Gregory, Mary Huston
She afterwards discovered that the pink juice of chokeberry did very well for lips, cheeks, and gay dresses.
From Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs by Fuller, O. E. (Osgood Eaton)
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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