currant : Idioms & Phrases

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Black currant

  • noun widely cultivated current bearing edible black aromatic berries
    Ribes nigrum; black currant.
  • noun small black berries used in jams and jellies
WordNet
  • . (Bot.) See Currant.
  • a shrub or bush (Ribes nigrum and R. floridum) and its black, strong-flavored, tonic fruit.
Webster 1913

Cherry currant

  • a variety of the red currant, having a strong, symmetrical bush and a very large berry.
Webster 1913

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).
Webster 1913

currant bush

  • noun any of various deciduous shrubs of the genus Ribes bearing currants
    currant.
WordNet

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).
Webster 1913

european black currant

  • noun widely cultivated current bearing edible black aromatic berries
    Ribes nigrum; black currant.
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Flowering currant, Missouri currant

  • a species of Ribes (R. aureum), having showy yellow flowers.
Webster 1913

Indian currant

  • noun North American deciduous shrub cultivated for it abundant clusters of coral-red berrylike fruits
    Symphoricarpos orbiculatus; coralberry.
WordNet
  • (Bot.), a plant of the genus Symphoricarpus (S. vulgaris), bearing small red berries.
Webster 1913

Red currant

  • noun cultivated European current bearing small edible red berries
    Ribes rubrum; garden current.
  • noun small red berries used primarily in jams and jellies
WordNet
  • . (Bot.) See Currant.
Webster 1913

White currant

  • noun garden currant bearing small white berries
    Ribes sativum.
WordNet
  • (Bot.), a variety of the common red currant, having white berries.
Webster 1913

winter currant

  • noun a flowering shrub
    Ribes sanguineum.
WordNet

zante currant

Zan"te cur"rant
Definitions
  1. A kind of seedless grape or raisin; -- so called from Zante, one of the Ionian Islands.
Webster 1913