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Choke-cherry. World English Historical Dictionary

Choke-cherry. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Choke-cherry U.S. Two North American species of cherries, with astringent properties; also the trees, Prunus borealis and P. hyemalis, the latter called more fully Black Choke Cherry.

1 1796.  Morse, Amer. Geog., I. 188. Dwarf or Choak Cherry (Pr. canadensis).

2 1838–44.  Loudon, Trees & Shrubs, 703 (L.). C. borealis … Astringent in the mouth, and hence called choke-cherries. Ibid., 705. The fruit [of Cerasus hyemalis] … is called by the inhabitants [of Virginia and Carolina] the black choke-cherry.

3 1881.  E. Mason, in Harper’s Mag., Nov., 835/1. The choke-cherry and the mountain ash display their red fruit.

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