Currant

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant.

II. Currant ·noun A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia;

— used in cookery.

III. Currant ·noun 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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