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Currant vs Currantlike - What's the difference?

currant | currantlike |

As a noun currant

is a small dried grape, usually the black corinth grape, rarely more than 4mm diameter when dried.

As an adjective currantlike is

resembling or characteristic of a currant.

currant

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small dried grape, usually the Black Corinth grape, rarely more than 4mm diameter when dried.
  • The fruit of various shrubs of the genus Ribes , white, black or red.
  • A shrub bearing such fruit.

    • Derived terms

    * blackcurrant * redcurrant * whitecurrant

    See also

    * date * raisin * sultana ----

    currantlike

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling or characteristic of a currant.
  • * 1897 , Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World?
    • I saw some that had long red bunches of currantlike berries ambushed among the foliage.