- A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant,
chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; -- used in cookery. - The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red
currant, or of its variety, the white currant. - 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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