Blackcurrant

Quick meaning: Blackcurrant is a noun meaning A shrub, Ribes nigrum, that produces small, very dark purple, edible berries.

Meaning

A shrub, Ribes nigrum, that produces small, very dark purple, edible berries.

More Meanings

1. The berry borne by this shrub.

Example Sentences

Their wines are intense and elegant, tasting of blackcurrants and made to be aged.

Blackcurrant jam is easy, but this year I have left the blackcurrants so long that they are sweet and ripe enough to eat raw: delicious rolled in a crunch of granulated sugar.

Blackcurrant leaf has a diuretic action [11,12,14], therefore it should not be taken concurrently with diuretics indicated for cardiac or renal insufficiency except on medical advice.

On this first day I concentrated on bushes - gooseberry and blackcurrants for the bottom end borders, rhododendrons for the front inside the wall and a couple of hydrangeas in the spaces left in the monoblocking to the left of the front door.

Word Forms

• blackcurrants
• black currant
• black-currant

Synonyms for blackcurrant

Depending on context, synonyms include black.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include currants, black currant, currant, black, whitecurrant, redcurrant.

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