chokecherry

English

A blooming chokecherry tree.

chokecherry (plural chokecherries)

Any of several American wild cherry trees, especially Prunus virginiana.
- 1981, Bradford Angier, Field Guide to Medicinal Wild Plants:
  The youngster-loved chokecherry grows both as a bushy shrub and as a tree seldom higher than 22 feet, its branches bending with clusters of darkening red or blackish purple berrylike drupes . . .
The fruit of this plant.
- 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster 2014, p. 72:
  There were handfuls of chokecherries for dessert and a lemonade made from sumac.

tree

Cahuilla: 'atut
Catalan: cirerer de Virgínia m
Cheyenne: ménó'e, vénôho'kôhtse
German: Virginische Traubenkirsche f
Navajo: kʼįįshzhíní
Norwegian:
Bokmål: virginiahegg m
Swedish: virginiahägg c
Ukrainian: черемха (uk) f (čeremxa) (Canada [by analogy with European bird cherry])

fruit

Blackfoot: pákkii'p
Cahuilla: 'atut
Ukrainian: черемха (uk) f (čeremxa) (Canada [by analogy with European bird cherry])