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What does currant mean?
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NounPlural: currants |
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| currant - any of various deciduous shrubs of the genus Ribes bearing currants | ||
| currant bush | ||
| shrub, bush a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems | ||
| genus ribes, ribes a flowering shrub bearing currants or gooseberries; native to northern hemisphere | ||
| garden current, ribes rubrum, red currant small red berries used primarily in jams and jellies | ||
| european black currant, ribes nigrum, black currant small black berries used in jams and jellies | ||
| ribes sativum, white currant garden currant bearing small white berries | ||
| currant - any of several tart red or black berries used primarily for jellies and jams | ||
| berry any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves | ||
| gooseberry currant-like berry used primarily in jams and jellies | ||
| black currant small black berries used in jams and jellies | ||
| currant - small dried seedless raisin grown in the Mediterranean region and California; used in cooking | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- currant (n.)
A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; -- used in cookery. - currant (n.)
The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant. - currant (n.)
A shrub or bush of several species of the genus Ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the Ribes rubrum.
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currant
A small kind of seedless raisin, used in cookery.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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currant
kur′ant, n. a small kind of raisin or dried grape imported from the Levant: the fruit of several species of ribes.—ns. Curr′ant-jell′y; Curr′ant-wine. [From Corinth.]
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- A currant is a type of fruit. They are like grapes. There are two different species.
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🔤- currant, noun, singular of currants.
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