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redcurrant | null |

As nouns the difference between redcurrant and null

is that redcurrant is a deciduous shrub, ribes rubrum , native to western europe; any of certain cultivars of the shrub while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

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

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  • (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
  • absent or non-existent
  • (mathematics) of the null set
  • (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
  • (genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----