Definitions for chokeberry

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chokeberry choke·ber·ry

Spelling: [chohk-ber-ee, -buh-ree]

IPA: /ˈtʃoʊkˌbɛr i, -bə ri/

Chokeberry is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.

You can make 268 anagrams from letters in chokeberry (bceehkorry).

Definitions for chokeberry

noun

1. 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)
2. the plant that bears this fruit.

Origin of chokeberry

An Americanism dating back to 1770-80; choke + berry

Examples for chokeberry

There were thickets of aronia or chokeberry, whose flat white blossoms and reddish bark showed its kinship to the apple tree.

She afterwards discovered that the pink juice of chokeberry did very well for lips, cheeks, and gay dresses.

chokeberry, buckthorn, elder berry, and mulberry will attract birds away from blackberry and raspberry patches.