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white currant

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noun

  1. a cultivated N temperate shrub, Ribes sativum, having small rounded white edible berries: family Grossulariaceae

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Potato flatbread with spruce sprout pesto and pickled white currant.

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026

Boughs of cedar, white currant and flowering plum hung in bouquets from its corners, and its lip was decorated with prayer flags.

From New York Times • May 25, 2017

Over the runners tall nodding onion-heads showed, and behind them again bushes heavy with white currant.

From The Tower of Oblivion by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]

When the scum ceases to rise, put in the white currant juice and boil it fast for ten minutes.

From Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches by Leslie, Eliza

I will leave you to talk to him a bit while I open a bottle of our white currant wine to hearten you for your walk home.'

From Lover or Friend by Carey, Rosa Nouchette