choke-berry
[choke- 1 b.]
A plant belonging to the genus Aronia, which includes several species of North American shrubs; also, the fruit of this plant.
| 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 Lect. Bot. (ed. 7) 77 Aronia arbutifolia..Red Choke-berry. 1851 Mayne Reid Scalp Hunt. xl. 305 Skin-bags filled with..choke-berries. 1898 Atlantic Monthly LXXXII. 497/2 With the huckleberry, was chokeberry, another New England acquaintance. 1901 C. 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. |