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Cur"rant
(k?r"rant), n.[F. corinthe (raisins de Corinthe raisins of Corinth) currant (in sense 1), from the city of Corinth in Greece, whence, probably, the small dried grape (1) was first imported, the Ribes fruit (2) receiving the name from its resemblance to that grape.]
1. A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; -- used in cookery.
2. The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant.
3. (Bot.) A shrub or bush of several species of the genus Ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the Ribes rubrum.
Black currant,a shrub or bush (Ribes nigrum and R. floridum) and its black, strong-flavored, tonic fruit.
Cherry currant, a variety of the red currant, having a strong, symmetrical bush and a very large berry.
Currant borer (Zol.), the larva of an insect that bores into the pith and kills currant bushes; specif., the larvae of a small clearwing moth (geria tipuliformis) and a longicorn
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