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A kind of seedless grape or raisin; -- so called from Zante, one of the Ionian Islands.
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A genus of shrubs including gooseberries and currants of many kinds.
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The red currant.
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A ripened ovule, consisting of an embryo with one or more integuments, or coverings; as, an apple seed; a currant seed. By germination it produces a new plant.
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A disease, occurring in the Antilles and in Africa, characterized by yellowish or reddish tumors, of a contagious character, which, in shape and appearance, often resemble currants, strawberries, or raspberries. There are several varieties of this disease, variously known as framboesia, pian, verrugas, and crab-yaws.
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Abounding in stems, or mixed with stems; -- said of tea, dried currants, etc.
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The juice of fruits or meats boiled with sugar to an elastic consistence; as, currant jelly; calf's-foot jelly.
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A small fruit; a currant.
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The black currant; also, the wild plum.
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The currantlike fruit of the African and Arabian caper (Capparis sodado).
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A flower cluster with an elongated axis and many one-flowered lateral pedicels, as in the currant and chokecherry.
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A preserve of fruit boiled with sugar and water; as, raspberry jam; currant jam; grape jam.
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The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant.
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A small fruit that is pulpy or succulent throughout, having seeds loosely imbedded in the pulp, as the currant, grape, blueberry.
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Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Saxifragaceae) of which saxifrage is the type. The order includes also the alum root, the hydrangeas, the mock orange, currants and gooseberries, and many other plants.
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A shrub or bush of several species of the genus Ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the Ribes rubrum.
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A lepidopterous insect with partially transparent wings, of the family Aegeriadae, of which the currant and peach-tree borers are examples.
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A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; -- used in cookery.
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A liquor or beverage prepared from the juice of any fruit or plant by a process similar to that for grape wine; as, currant wine; gooseberry wine; palm wine.
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Bearing racemes, as the currant.
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