Redcurrant vs Raspberry - What's the difference?
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A deciduous shrub, Ribes rubrum , native to western Europe; any of certain cultivars of the shrub.
* 1989 , Amos Oz, To Know A Woman ,
* 2009 , Christopher Stocks, Forgotten Fruits: The stories behind Britain's traditional fruit and vegetables ,
* 1989 , , A Gentle Plea for Chaos , 2011,
The bright red translucent edible berry of this plant.
* 1995 , , Casting Off , Cazalet Chronicles, Book 4, 2006,
* 2007 , Michael Riisager, Letters to Kaia: Adventures of a Danish Boy in England During World War II and After ,
* 2010 , John Welshman, Churchill's Children: The Evacuee Experience in Wartime Britain ,
The plant Rubus idaeus .
Any of many other (but not all) species in the genus Rubus .
The juicy aggregate fruit of these plants.
A (colour) red colour, the colour of a ripe raspberry.
Containing or having the flavor/flavour of raspberries.
Of a dark pinkish red.
To gather or forage for .
* 1903 , M. E. Waller, A Daughter of the Rich , Little, Brown, and Company (1903),
* 1917 , Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams , Chapter 37:
* 1944 , Cornelius Weygandt, The Heart of New Hampshire: Things Held Dear by Folks of the Old Stocks , G. P. Putnam's Sons (1944),
* 1976 , Emily Ward, The Way Things Were: An Autobiography of Emily Ward , Newport Press (1976),
* 1988 , Charles McCarry, The Bride of the Wilderness , MysteriousPress.com (2011), ISBN 9781453232521,
(pejorative, colloquial) A noise intended to imitate the passing of flatulence, made by blowing air out of the mouth while the tongue is protruding from and pressed against the lips, or by blowing air through the lips while they are pressed firmly together or against skin, used humorously or to express derision.
(colloquial) To make the noise intended to imitate the passing of flatulence.
Cockney rhyming slang
As nouns the difference between redcurrant and raspberry
is that redcurrant is a deciduous shrub, Ribes rubrum, native to western Europe; any of certain cultivars of the shrub while raspberry is the plant Rubus idaeus.As an adjective raspberry is
containing or having the flavor/flavour of raspberries.As a verb raspberry is
to gather or forage for raspberries.redcurrant
English
(wikipedia redcurrant)Noun
(en noun)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.
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.
page 173,
- Blackcurrants and redcurrants , gooseberries, raspberries and rhubarb grow amongst viburnums, hollyhocks, sweet williams, forsythia, and a medlar.
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- Her mouth was pale red and translucent, like the skin of a redcurrant .
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.
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- Eddy became quite good at picking strawberries, raspberries, black- and redcurrants , loganberries, apples, pears, plums, and vegetables.
See also
* currant * blackcurrant * whitecurrant * pommeraspberry
English
(wikipedia raspberry)Etymology 1
From earlier raspis berry'', possibly from ''raspise'' (a sweet rose-colored wine), from Anglo-(etyl) ''vinum raspeys , of uncertain origin.Noun
(raspberries)Derived terms
* black raspberry * raspberry vinegar * Scotland raspberrySynonyms
* (obsolete) hindberryAdjective
(-)- She wore a raspberry beret'' — lyrics of ''Raspberry Beret , by the musician
Verb
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- "Owen and she went raspberrying in the woods back of her farm," answered Anne. "They won't be back before supper time—if then."
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- Mrs. Thrifty was picking pie cherries, two boys were raspberrying , and the fourth son, as I recall it, blueberrying.
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- My mother told my sister Sally and me that if we were good little girls we might go raspberrying up on the mountains when the raspberries were ripe.
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- In strawberry time she had seen individual bears grazing in the meadows along the bluff, and later, while raspberrying , she heard one gobbling fruit and snorting on the other side of the bush.