chokecherry

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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 . . .
  2. The fruit of this plant.
    — There were handfuls of chokecherries for dessert and a lemonade made from sumac.

词形变化

chokecherries plural choke cherry alternative

词汇关系

相关词
Virginia bird cherry bitter-berry bird cherry black cherry

词源

From choke + cherry, so called from the extreme astringency of the fresh fruit.
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