Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A currant; generally as plural, currants.
- noun A genus of polypetalous shrubs, constituting the tribe Ribesieæ in the order Saxifragaceæ, and producing small flowers with four or five scale-like petals, four or five stamens, two styles, and an ovoid calyx-tube united to the ovary, continued above into a tubular or bell-shaped four- or five-cleft limb, which is often colored.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A genus of shrubs including gooseberries and currants of many kinds.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a flowering shrub bearing currants or gooseberries; native to northern hemisphere
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Examples
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Botanically the black Currant, _Ribes nigrum_, belongs to the Saxifrage tribe, this generic term Ribes being applied to all fresh currants, as of Arabian origin, and signifying acidity.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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Currants and Gooseberries Currants and gooseberries are all species of the genus Ribes, which is found in northern Europe and North America.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Currants and Gooseberries Currants and gooseberries are all species of the genus Ribes, which is found in northern Europe and North America.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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"Ribes," says he -- Ribes was one of Napoleon's physicians -- "was right when he said that in the midst of the army, and especially of the Imperial guard, I could not lose my life.
Napoleon's Campaign in Russia Anno 1812 Achilles Rose 1877
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A passing signal that autumn is coming, the leaves of Ribes odoratum (the native clove currant) are beautifully washed with scarlet.
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"Private Fears in Public Places is an adaptation (by Jean-Michel Ribes) of an Alan Ayckbourn play so cinematic that it could stand as a treatise on how translation to the screen can bring added dimension and meaning to theatrical material," writes Kevin Thomas.
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The principal species in the forests include southern beech Nothofagus antarctica, N. pumilio (the most abundant), N. betuloides (at its southernmost limit), and N. dombeyi (which replaces N. betuloides from 48°S); other typical species are Fuchsia magellanica, Winter's bark Drimys winteri, Ribes magellanicus, Berberis buxifolia, Pernettya mucronata, Philesia buxifolia, and Guaytecas Islands cypress Pilgerodendron uviferum (R).
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"I found the interlocking bitterness of [Alan] Ayckbourn's play (adapted by Jean-Michel Ribes) irritating and overly neat, and these people don't seem to belong to Paris or London or anywhere else, at least not anytime in the last 20 years," writes Salon's Andrew O'Hehir of Private Fears.
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Associated broadleaf species are the willow-like Chosenia arbutifolia, aspen Populus tremula, birches Betula pendula, and B. alba, Siberian rowan Sorbus sibirica, Siberian almond Amygdalys pedunculata, bird cherry Prunus asiatica, Siberian apricot P. sibirica with an understorey of honeysuckle Lonicera periclymenum and currants Ribes rubrum, R. nigrum.
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The floodplain island terraces are dominated by willow Salix spp., rowan Sorbus aucuparia, blackcurrant Ribes nigrum and bird cherry Prunus padus.
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