Word Meanings - CURRANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A shrub or bush of several species of the genus Ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the Ribes rubrum. Black currant,a shrub or bush and its black, strong-flavored, tonic fruit. -- Cherry currant, a variety of the red currant,

Additional info about word: CURRANT

A shrub or bush of several species of the genus Ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the Ribes rubrum. Black currant,a shrub or bush 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 , the larva of an insect that bores into the pith and kills currant bushes; specif., the larvae of a small clearwing moth and a longicorn beetle -- Currant worm , an insect larva which eats the leaves or fruit of the currant. The most injurious are the currant sawfly , introduced from Europe, and the spanworm . The fruit worms are the larva of a fly (Epochra Canadensis), and a spanworm . -- Flowering currant, Missouri currant, a species of Ribes (R. aureum), having showy yellow flowers. (more info) raisins of Corinth) currant , from the city of Corinth in Greece, whence, probably, the small dried grape was first imported, the Ribes fruit receiving the name from its resemblance 1. A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; -- used in cookery. 2. The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant.

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• FRUITAGE
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