RIBES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ribes mean? 

• RIBES (noun)
  The noun RIBES has 1 sense:

1. a flowering shrub bearing currants or gooseberries; native to northern hemisphere

  Familiarity information: RIBES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIBES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A flowering shrub bearing currants or gooseberries; native to northern hemisphere

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Ribes; Ribes

Hypernyms ("Ribes" is a kind of...):

plant genus (a genus of plants)

Meronyms (members of "Ribes"):

currant; currant bush (any of various deciduous shrubs of the genus Ribes bearing currants)

garden current; red currant; Ribes rubrum (cultivated European current bearing small edible red berries)

black currant; European black currant; Ribes nigrum (widely cultivated current bearing edible black aromatic berries)

Ribes sativum; white currant (garden currant bearing small white berries)

Ribes sanguineum; winter currant (a flowering shrub)

gooseberry; gooseberry bush; Ribes grossularia; Ribes uva-crispa (spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries)

Holonyms ("Ribes" is a member of...):

family Grossulariaceae; gooseberry family; Grossulariaceae (in some classifications considered a part of the family Saxifragaceae: plants whose fruit is a berry)