·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.