Currant
['kʌr(ə)nt] or ['kɝənt]
Definition
(noun.) any of several tart red or black berries used primarily for jellies and jams.
(noun.) small dried seedless raisin grown in the Mediterranean region and California; used in cooking.
(noun.) any of various deciduous shrubs of the genus Ribes bearing currants.
Editor: Nancy--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; -- used in cookery.
(n.) The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant.
(n.) A shrub or bush of several species of the genus Ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the Ribes rubrum.
Typist: Rowland
Definition
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.
Inputed by George
Examples
- At seven he painted the Battle of Waterloo with tiger-lily pollen and black-currant juice, in the absence of water-colours. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- On the plain household bread his eye did not dwell; but he surveyed with favour some currant tea-cakes, and condescended to make choice of one. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Do you remember the matted-up currant bushes, Margaret, at the corner of the west-wall in the garden at home? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Fired with a housewifely wish to see her storeroom stocked with homemade preserves, she undertook to put up her own currant jelly. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Look at his eye--for all the world like a villainous sort of black currant. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Large currant buns and hot, well-sweetened tea were then administered in the proper spirit of liberality. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- This is true not only of grape juice but also of the juice of all other sweet fruits; apple juice ferments to cider, currant juice to currant wine, etc. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The common gooseberry, for instance, cannot be grafted on the currant, whereas the currant will take, though with difficulty, on the gooseberry. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- At the Rectory, when the bottle of port wine was opened after dinner, the young ladies had each a glass from a bottle of currant wine. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Wines, currants, and wrought silks, were the only goods which did not fall within this rule, having other and more advantageous allowances. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Home came four dozen delightful little pots, half a barrel of sugar, and a small boy to pick the currants for her. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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