Definitions for chokecherries

chokecherries choke·cher·ry

Spelling: [chohk-cher-ee]
IPA: /ˈtʃoʊkˌtʃɛr i/

Chokecherries is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 27 points.

You can make 518 anagrams from letters in chokecherries (cceeehhikorrs).

Definitions for chokecherries

noun

  1. any of several cherries, especially Prunus virginiana, of North America, that bear an astringent fruit.
  2. the fruit itself.

Origin of chokecherries

An Americanism dating back to 1775-85; choke + cherry

Examples for chokecherries

The wild black cherry is the most noxious species, and the chokecherry is not far behind it.

Opposite the schoolhouse was a little copse of chokecherry bushes, and we stepped in among them to watch.

There were some chokecherry bushes higher than her head, and there were other bushes that did not look particularly enlivening.

There are two species of gooseberry here, but neither of them yet ripe: nor are the chokecherry, though in great quantities.

Sometimes they were made of chokecherry wood; and Joseph LaFlèche informs me that he has made them of ash and hickory.

When Thea first came, the chokecherry bushes were in blossom, and the scent of them was almost sickeningly sweet after a shower.

It tore aspens and chokecherry bushes out of the ground and left the yuccas hanging by their tough roots.

The surrounding trees were mountain mahogany and chokecherry.

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