1 a dried fruit of a small seedless variety of grape grown in the Levant and much used in cookery.
2 a any of various shrubs of the genus Ribes producing red, white, or black berries. b a berry of these shrubs.
Phrases and idioms:
flowering currant an ornamental species of currant native to N. America.
Etymology: ME raysons of coraunce f. AF, = grapes of Corinth (the orig. source)
Useful english dictionary. 2012.