Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Currant

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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Currant


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(1):

(n.) The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant.

(2):

(n.) A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; -- used in cookery.

(3):

(n.) A shrub or bush of several species of the genus Ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the Ribes rubrum.