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Noun
blackcurrant (plural blackcurrants)
- A shrub, Ribes nigrum, that produces small, very dark purple, edible berries.
- ✤ * Blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum) and guelder rose (Viburnum opulus) are frequent but alder buckthorn (Frangula alnus) a common constituent of East Anglian carr is very rare.*1
- ✤ * 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.*2
- ✤ 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.3
- The berry borne by this shrub.
- ✤ Synonym: black (chiefly in drinks)
- ✤ Their wines are intense and elegant, tasting of blackcurrants and made to be aged.4
- ✤ * 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.*5
Etymology
From black + currant.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /ˈblækˌkʌɹənt/
- Audio (Southern England): 🔊
- (US) IPA: /ˈblækˌkɜɹənt/
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Link to original Footnotes
1993, R. D. Davidson, 19: The vegetation of Lough Neagh wetlands, R.B. Wood, R.V. Smith (editors), Lough Neagh: The Ecology of a Multipurpose Water Resource, Monographae Biologicae: Volume 69, page 487, ↩
2003, European Scientific Cooperative on Phytotherapy, ESCOP Monographs: The Scientific Foundation for Herbal Medicinal Products , page 426: ↩
2005, Bernard Stocks, The Teenage Pensioner , page 112: ↩
2003, Maria Villegas, Kay Halsey, Sarah Randell, A Little Taste of France, page 120: ↩
2011, Katherine Swift, The Morville Hours: The Story of a Garden , page 222: ↩
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