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choke-cherry N. Amer.
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.
1785Cutler in Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 1784 I. 449 The Black Choke Cherry... The Red Choke Cherry. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 188 Dwarf or Choak Cherry (Pr. canadensis). 1838–44Loudon 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. 1881Harper's Mag. Nov. 835 The choke-cherry and the mountain ash display their red fruit. |