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    CHOKECHERRY

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

    chokecherry; chokecherry tree; Prunus virginiana

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    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)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    The fruit of the chokecherry treeplay

    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)

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