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Black currant

noun

Widely cultivated current bearing edible black aromatic berries. Synonyms: European black currant, Ribes nigrum.

Small black berries used in jams and jellies.

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"Black currant" Quotes from Famous Books

... an hour to live. At eleven o'clock I shall be dead, and I shall die without a pang. I have paid fifty thousand francs for a neat little black currant, containing a poison that will kill me with the swiftness of lightning. And so, my darling, you may tell yourself, 'My little Esther had no suffering.'—and yet I shall suffer ...

— Scenes from a Courtesan's Life • Honore de Balzac

... young wonder (as are eleven out of the dozen of us) at drawing? My father had faith in me, and over yonder in a drawer of mine lies, I well know, a certain cottage and rocks in lead pencil and black currant jam-juice (paint being rank poison, as they said when I sucked my brushes) with his (my father's) note in one corner, "R. B., aetat. two years three months." "How fast, alas, our days we spend—How vain they be, how soon they end!" ...

— Life and Letters of Robert Browning • Mrs. Sutherland Orr

... in the valley. consisting of the narrowleafed Cottonwood aspin & pine. vas numbers of the several species of currants goosberries and service berries; of each of these I preserved some seeds. I found a black currant which I thought preferable in flavor to the yellow. this currant is really a charming fruit and I am confident would be prefered at our markets to any currant now cultivated in the U States. we killed an Elk this morning which was very acceptable to us. through the valley ...

— The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al

... wine hereabouts that the more you pay for it, the worse it tastes. If you adventure into the Olympic spheres of Chateau Lafite and so forth, you may put your trust in God, or in a blue pill. Chateau Cassis would be a good name for these finer vintages, seeing that the harmless black currant enters largely into their composition, though not in sufficient quantity to render them wholly innocuous. Which suggests a little problem for the oenophilist. What difference of soil or exposure or climate ...

— Alone • Norman Douglas

Words linked to "Black currant" : currant, Ribes nigrum, Ribes, genus Ribes, currant bush