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Grape vs Blackcurrant - What's the difference?

grape | blackcurrant |

As nouns the difference between grape and blackcurrant

is that grape is a small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on vines of genus Vitis while blackcurrant is a shrub, Ribes nigrum, that produces small, very dark purple, edible berries.

As an adjective grape

is containing grapes or having a grape flavor.

grape

English

Noun

  • (countable) A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on vines of genus Vitis .
  • (countable) A woody vine that bears clusters of grapes; a grapevine.
  • (countable, uncountable) A dark purplish red colour, the colour of many grapes.
  • (uncountable) grapeshot.
  • A mangy tumour on a horse's leg.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Containing grapes or having a grape flavor.
  • Of a dark purplish red colour.

    • Derived terms

    {{der3, Concord grape , fox grape , grape fern , grape hyacinth , grape ivy , grape sugar , grapefruit , grapeshot , grapevine , grapey , Oregon grape , sea grape , sour grapes}}

    Related terms

    {{rel3, grappa , grapnel , grapple , pyruvic acid , uva ursi , uvea , uvula}}

    See also

    * aril * cabernet sauvignon * Catawba * chardonnay * Chenin Blanc * currant * delaware * gamay * * gordo * Lambrusco * malvasia * merlot * muscadine * muscat * muscatel * must * noble rot * petioles * Pinot Grigio * Pinot Noir * pinotage * raisin * resveratrol * riesling * Sauvignon blanc * scuppernong * * Shiraz * Steen * stum * sultana * syrah * Tokay * wine * zinfandel * * (wikipedia "grape")

    Anagrams

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    blackcurrant

    English

    (wikipedia blackcurrant)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shrub, Ribes nigrum , that produces small, very dark purple, edible berries.
  • * 1993 , R. D. Davidson, 19: The vegetation of Lough Neagh wetlands'', R.B. Wood, R.V. Smith (editors), ''Lough Neagh: The Ecology of a Multipurpose Water Resource , Monographae Biologicae: Volume 69, page 487,
    • Blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum'') and guelder rose (''Viburnum opulus'') are frequent but alder buckthorn (''Frangula alnus ) a common constituent of East Anglian carr is very rare.
  • * 2003 , European Scientific Cooperative on Phytotherapy, ESCOP Monographs: The Scientific Foundation for Herbal Medicinal Products , page 426,
    • Blackcurrant leaf has a diuretic action [11,12,14], therefore it should not be taken concurrently with diuretics indicated for cardiac or renal insufficiency except on medical advice.
  • * 2005 , Bernard Stocks, The Teenage Pensioner , page 112,
    • On this first day I concentrated on bushes - gooseberry and blackcurrants for the bottom end borders, rhododendrons for the front inside the wall and a couple of hydrangeas in the spaces left in the monoblocking to the left of the front door.
  • The berry borne by this shrub.
  • * 2003 , Maria Villegas, Kay Halsey, Sarah Randell, A Little Taste of France , page 120,
    • Their wines are intense and elegant, tasting of blackcurrants and made to be aged.
  • * 2011 , Katherine Swift, The Morville Hours: The Story of a Garden , page 222,
    • Blackcurrant' jam is easy, but this year I have left the ' blackcurrants so long that they are sweet and ripe enough to eat raw: delicious rolled in a crunch of granulated sugar.
  • * 2012 , Tong Kwee Lim, Edible Medicinal And Non-Medicinal Plants , Volume 4: Fruits, page 28,
    • Blackcurrants can be eaten fresh, on its own, or with ice cream or in mixed fruit salad.