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Redcurrant - What does it mean?

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redcurrant

English

(wikipedia redcurrant)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A deciduous shrub, Ribes rubrum , native to western Europe; any of certain cultivars of the shrub.
  • * 1989 , Amos Oz, To Know A Woman , page 109,
    • And a hint of still waters, a stream, a brook, a rivulet, meandering with flashes of brilliance through the lush dense greenery, among shadowy plants that might have been blackberries or redcurrants', although what ' redcurrants and blackberries might be Yoel had not the faintest notion, and even the names themselves he only knew from books.
  • * 2009 , Christopher Stocks, Forgotten Fruits: The stories behind Britain's traditional fruit and vegetables , page 93,
    • Cultivated redcurrants' are most closely related to ''Ribes rubrum'', which like blackcurrants grow in northern Europe and northern Asia, although several other species have had a hand in the development of particular varieties; whitecurrants, for their part, are simply '''redcurrants''' with albino genes. Despite their similarities, the histories of blackcurrants and ' redcurrants in Britain are surprisingly distinct.
  • * 1989 , , A Gentle Plea for Chaos , 2011, page 173,
    • Blackcurrants and redcurrants , gooseberries, raspberries and rhubarb grow amongst viburnums, hollyhocks, sweet williams, forsythia, and a medlar.
  • The bright red translucent edible berry of this plant.
  • * 1995 , , Casting Off , Cazalet Chronicles, Book 4, 2006, unnumbered page,
    • Her mouth was pale red and translucent, like the skin of a redcurrant .
  • * 2007 , Michael Riisager, Letters to Kaia: Adventures of a Danish Boy in England During World War II and After , page 224,
    • She did not seem too happy to see us at first, but relaxed after she had shown us round their garden and we had tasted redcurrants and gooseberries.
  • * 2010 , John Welshman, Churchill's Children: The Evacuee Experience in Wartime Britain , unnumbered page,
    • Eddy became quite good at picking strawberries, raspberries, black- and redcurrants , loganberries, apples, pears, plums, and vegetables.

    See also

    * currant * blackcurrant * whitecurrant * pomme

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