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currant

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Noun

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun currant has 3 senses

currant(n = noun.food) Array - any of several tart red or black berries used primarily for jellies and jams; Array

is a kind of

berry

has particulars: gooseberry, black currant, red currant

currant(n = noun.plant) currant bush - any of various deciduous shrubs of the genus Ribes bearing currants; Array

is a member of genus ribes, ribes

has particulars: garden current, red currant, ribes rubrum, black currant, european black currant, ribes nigrum, ribes sativum, white currant, ribes sanguineum, winter currant

is a kind of bush, shrub

currant(n = noun.food) Array - small dried seedless raisin grown in the Mediterranean region and California; used in cooking; Array

is a kind of

raisin

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CIDE DICTIONARY

currant, n. [F. corinthe (raisins de Corinthe raisins of Corinth) currant (in sense 1), from the city of Corinth in Greece, whence, probably, the small dried grape (1) was first imported, the Ribes fruit (2) receiving the name from its resemblance to that grape.].

A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; -- used in cookery. [1913 Webster]
The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant. [1913 Webster]
A shrub or bush of several species of the genus Ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the Ribes rubrum. [1913 Webster]

Black currant,a shrub or bush (Ribes nigrum and Ribes floridum) and its black, strong-flavored, tonic fruit. -- Cherry currant, a variety of the red currant, having a strong, symmetrical bush and a very large berry. -- Currant borer (Zoöl.), the larva of an insect that bores into the pith and kills currant bushes; specif., the larvae of a small clearwing moth (Ægeria tipuliformis) and a longicorn beetle (Psenocerus supernotatus). -- Currant worm (Zoöl.), an insect larva which eats the leaves or fruit of the currant. The most injurious are the currant sawfly (Nematus ventricosus), introduced from Europe, and the spanworm (Eufitchia ribearia). The fruit worms are the larva of a fly (Epochra Canadensis), and a spanworm (Eupithecia). -- Flowering currant, Missouri currant, a species of Ribes (Ribes aureum), having showy yellow flowers.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

currant, n.
1 a dried fruit of a small seedless variety of grape grown in the Levant and much used in cookery.
2 a any of various shrubs of the genus Ribes producing red, white, or black berries. b a berry of these shrubs.

Idiom

flowering currant an ornamental species of currant native to N. America.

Etymology

ME raysons of coraunce f. AF, = grapes of Corinth (the orig. source)

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