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What is the difference between shrub and currant?

shrub | currant |

As nouns the difference between shrub and currant

is that shrub is a woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base or shrub can be a liquor composed of vegetable acid, fruit juice (especially lemon), sugar, sometimes vinegar, and a small amount of spirit as a preservative modern shrub is usually non-alcoholic, but in earlier times it was often mixed with a substantial amount of spirit such as brandy or rum, thus making it a liqueur while currant is a small dried grape, usually the black corinth grape, rarely more than 4mm diameter when dried.

As a verb shrub

is (obsolete) to lop; to prune.

shrub

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) ; akin to Norwegian skrubba the dwarf cornel tree

Noun

(en noun)
  • A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.
  • Synonyms
    * bush (plant)
    Derived terms
    * semishrubby * shrubbery * shrubby * subshrub * undershrub

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To lop; to prune.
  • (Kenya) To mispronounce a word by replacing its consonant sound(s) with another or others of a similar place of articulation.
  • For example , ? sr?b)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) , akin to sirup, sherbet

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A liquor composed of vegetable acid, fruit juice (especially lemon), sugar, sometimes vinegar, and a small amount of spirit as a preservative. Modern shrub is usually non-alcoholic, but in earlier times it was often mixed with a substantial amount of spirit such as brandy or rum, thus making it a liqueur.
  • Anagrams

    * brush

    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 ----