Crossword clues for currant
currant
- Fruit for a tart
- Tangy pie fruit
- Any of several tart red or black berries used primarily for jellies and jams
- Small dried seedless raisin grown in the Mediterranean region and California
- Used in cooking
- Seedless raisin
- Kind of jelly
- Small raisin
- Type of berry
- Fruit for jelly
- Small dried seedless grape
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Currant \Cur"rant\ (k?r"rant), n. [F. corinthe (raisins de Corinthe raisins of Corinth) currant (in sense 1), from the city of Corinth in Greece, whence, probably, the small dried grape (1) was first imported, the Ribes fruit (2) receiving the name from its resemblance to that grape.]
A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; -- used in cookery.
The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant.
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(Bot.) A shrub or bush of several species of the genus Ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the Ribes rubrum.
Black currant,a shrub or bush ( Ribes nigrum and Ribes floridum) and its black, strong-flavored, tonic fruit.
Cherry currant, a variety of the red currant, having a strong, symmetrical bush and a very large berry.
Currant borer (Zo["o]l.), the larva of an insect that bores into the pith and kills currant bushes; specif., the larvae of a small clearwing moth ( [AE]geria tipuliformis) and a longicorn beetle ( Psenocerus supernotatus).
Currant worm (Zo["o]l.), an insect larva which eats the leaves or fruit of the currant. The most injurious are the currant sawfly ( Nematus ventricosus), introduced from Europe, and the spanworm ( Eufitchia ribearia). The fruit worms are the larva of a fly ( Epochra Canadensis), and a spanworm ( Eupithecia).
Flowering currant, Missouri currant, a species of Ribes ( Ribes aureum), having showy yellow flowers.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1500, from raysyn of Curans (mid-14c.) "raisins of Corinth," with the -s- mistaken for a plural inflection. From Anglo-French reisin de Corauntz. The small, seedless raisins were exported from southern Greece. Then in 1570s the word was applied to an unrelated Northern European berry (genus Ribes), recently introduced in England, on its resemblance to the raisins.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A small dried grape, usually the Black Corinth grape, rarely more than 4mm diameter when dried. 2 The fruit of various shrubs of the genus ''Ribes'', white, black or red. 3 A shrub bearing such fruit.
WordNet
n. any of several tart red or black berries used primarily for jellies and jams
any of various deciduous shrubs of the genus Ribes bearing currants [syn: currant bush]
small dried seedless raisin grown in the Mediterranean region and California; used in cooking
Wikipedia
Currant may refer to:
Plants:- Ribes, genus of berry plants, e.g. blackcurrant, redcurrant and white currant
- Zante currant, dried Black Corinth grapes; smaller than raisins ("Zante currant" in USA, "currant" in other English speaking countries).
- Currant tomato, Solanum pimpinellifolium, small tomato species
- Currant-tree, Amelanchier canadensis, also called Juneberry or Shadblow Serviceberry
- Currant bush, Carissa spinarum also called Conkerberry or Bush Plum
- Bush currant, Miconia calvescens, also called velvet tree or miconia
- Native currant, Leucopogon parviflorus also called Coast Beard-heath
- Mahonia trifoliolata, called Currant-of-Texas or Wild Currant
- Currant pug, Eupithecia assimilata, moth of the family Geometridae
- Currant Clearwing, Synanthedon tipuliformis, moth of the family Sesiidae
- Bunny Currant (1911–2006), British fighter ace
- Simon Currant, Tasmanian tourism developer
- Currant, Nevada, settlement near Currant Mountain
- Currant Mountain, White Pine Range, Nevada, USA
- Currant, the in-game currency for Glitch (game)
Usage examples of "currant".
Rice, Currants, Sugar, Prunes, Cynamon, Ginger, Pepper, Cloves, Green Ginger, Oil, Butter, Holland cheese or old Cheese, Wine-Vinegar, Canarie-Sack, Aqua-vitae, the best Wines, the best Waters, the juyce of Limons for the scurvy, white Bisket, Oatmeal, Gammons of Bacons, dried Neats tongues, Beef packed up in Vineger, Legs of Mutton minced and stewed, and close packed up, with tried Sewet or Butter in earthen Pots.
The seasoning may be varied by using one teaspoon of curry powder, a few grains of cayenne or half a tumbler of currant jelly and salt to taste.
Her face reminded Cec of a boarding-house pudding with currants for eyes.
The juice of Red Currants also contains malic and citric acids, which are cooling and wholesome.
Dunn, as likely as not, is making a cherry pie or currant jell or maybe a strawberry shortcake.
I had chicken korma, a currant square and tea, followed by a short snooze in an armchair.
The little gardens were bright with daffodils, mezereon, and flowering currant.
THIRD NEIGHBOUR Black as a chimbley FOURTH NEIGHBOUR Ringing doorbells THIRD NEIGHBOUR Breaking windows FOURTH NEIGHBOUR Making mudpies THIRD NEIGHBOUR Stealing currants FOURTH NEIGHBOUR Chalking words THIRD NEIGHBOUR Saw him in the bushes FOURTH NEIGHBOUR Playing mwchins THIRD NEIGHBOUR Send him to bed without any supper FOURTH NEIGHBOUR Give him sennapods and lock him in the dark THIRD NEIGHBOUR Off to the reformatory FOURTH NEIGHBOUR Off to the reformatory TOGETHER Learn him with a slipper on his b.
Saxifrage tribe, this generic term Ribes being applied to all fresh currants, as of Arabian origin, and signifying acidity.
It MIGHT have been useful had she kept it to tie up currant bushes with, when it would have served the double purpose of supporting the branches and frightening away the birds--for it is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.
But for the smudge of oil left by his fingers, I could tell myself that none of it had happened, and get on with banging my typewriter keys, ordering mustard by the tub and jam by the barrel and currants by the sackload as the ordnance trucks trundled their deadly trains of long steel canisters across the concrete and the groundcrew hauled fuel bousers and the aircrew watched the maps being unrolled and the pointers pointed at the name of a town in Europe that would mean death for some of them.
She leaves him gentle and absurd gifts as apology currants, offprints, lozenges at the first hint of a cough.
Irish soda bread, rich with currants yet the dough sternly unsweet, into my mouth beneath the veil.
In the Northern counties this red Currant is called Wineberry, or Garnetberry, from its rich ruddy colour, and transparency.
She must also look into the availability of such items as arsenic and aqua fortis while she was trying to learn who had sold the dates, currants and sugar to Appleton Manor.