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单词 choke-berry
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choke-berryn.

Etymology: choke- comb. form 1b.
A plant belonging to the genus Aronia, which includes several species of North American shrubs; also, the fruit of this plant.
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1778 J. Carver Trav. N.-Amer. 511 The Choak berry. The shrub thus termed by the natives..bears a berry about the size of a sloe, [etc.].
1836 D. B. Edward Hist. Texas iv. 66 The Cranberry and the choakberry.
1838 A. H. Lincoln Familiar Lect. Bot. (ed. 7) 77 Aronia arbutifolia..Red Choke-berry.
1845–50 A. H. Lincoln Familiar Lect. Bot. (new ed.) App. 76/2 A. sanguinea, bloody choke-berry.
1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters II. xvii. 270 Skin bags filled with..choke-berries.
1871 S. de Vere Americanisms (1872) 403 Very different is the so-called choke-berry, in reality the fruit of a low apple-tree (Pyrus arbutifolia).
1898 Atlantic Monthly 82 497/2 With the huckleberry, was chokeberry, another New England acquaintance.
1901 C. T. Mohr Plant Life Alabama 71 The chokeberry, which is here of arborescent habit, presents a beautiful sight when loaded with its bright scarlet fruit.
1949 L. H. Bailey Man. Cultivated Plants (rev. ed.) 518 Aronia... Chokeberry..little shrubs of swamps and low woods.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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