chokecherry tree

Questions about chokecherry tree

What does chokecherry tree mean?

chokecherry tree means "a common wild cherry of eastern North America having small bitter black berries favored by birds".

What is another word for chokecherry tree?

Close synonyms include chokecherry, Prunus virginiana. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chokecherry tree a common word?

chokecherry tree is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.