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CHOKECHERRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chokecherry mean? 

CHOKECHERRY (noun)
  The noun CHOKECHERRY has 2 senses:

1. the fruit of the chokecherry treeplay

2. a common wild cherry of eastern North America having small bitter black berries favored by birdsplay

  Familiarity information: CHOKECHERRY used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CHOKECHERRY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The fruit of the chokecherry tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("chokecherry" is a kind of...):

fruit (the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant)

Holonyms ("chokecherry" is a part of...):

chokecherry; chokecherry tree; Prunus virginiana (a common wild cherry of eastern North America having small bitter black berries favored by birds)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A common wild cherry of eastern North America having small bitter black berries favored by birds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

chokecherry; chokecherry tree; Prunus virginiana

Hypernyms ("chokecherry" is a kind of...):

cherry; cherry tree (any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood)

Meronyms (parts of "chokecherry"):

chokecherry (the fruit of the chokecherry tree)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chokecherry"):

Prunus demissa; Prunus virginiana demissa; western chokecherry (chokecherry of western United States)

Holonyms ("chokecherry" is a member of...):

genus Prunus; Prunus (a genus of shrubs and trees of the family Rosaceae that is widely distributed in temperate regions)


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