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chokeberry
CIDE DICTIONARY
chokeberry, n.
The small apple-shaped or pear-shaped fruit of an American shrub (Pyrus arbutifolia ) growing in damp thickets; also, the shrub. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
chokeberry, n. (pl. -ies) Bot.
1 any rosaceous shrub of the genus Aronia.
2 its scarlet berry-like fruit.
1 any rosaceous shrub of the genus Aronia.
2 its scarlet berry-like fruit.
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