A weed that chokes other plants; a species of Broomrape, Orobanche Rapum.
1548. Turner, Names of Herbes, Orobanche … it may be of his propertie called Chokeweede. Ibid. (1551), Herbal, P v a. Chokewede … groweth muche aboute the rootes of broome.
1840. Browning, Sordello, I. 259. A certain chokeweed grown Since o’er the waters.
