prunus virginiana

Questions about prunus virginiana

What does prunus virginiana mean?

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

What is another word for prunus virginiana?

Close synonyms include chokecherry, chokecherry tree. 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 prunus virginiana a common word?

prunus virginiana 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.