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A flowering shrub bearing currants or gooseberries
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ribes
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ribes \Ri"bes\, n.[NL.; cf. Dan. ribs, and Ar. r[=i]b[=a]s a plant with an acid juice.] (Bot.) A genus of shrubs including gooseberries and currants of many kinds.
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Ribes is a genus of about 150 known species of flowering plants native throughout the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere . It is usually treated as the only genus in the family Grossulariaceae , but a few taxonomists place the gooseberry species ...
Usage examples of ribes.
In the evening when she returned from the farm she came singing into the little court, where the gilly flowers and daffodils were once more swaying in the wind, and the much treasured ribes was hanging out its scented pink tassels.
Already the sun was rising over the grey slopes, the cottage walls caught the rosy tints, and the ribes tree, which alone was tall enough to catch his beams over the high turf wall of the court, glowed under his morning kiss.
Saxifrage tribe, this generic term Ribes being applied to all fresh currants, as of Arabian origin, and signifying acidity.