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WINTER CURRANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does winter currant mean? 

WINTER CURRANT (noun)
  The noun WINTER CURRANT has 1 sense:

1. a flowering shrubplay

  Familiarity information: WINTER CURRANT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WINTER CURRANT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A flowering shrub

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Ribes sanguineum; winter currant

Hypernyms ("winter currant" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("winter currant" is a member of...):

genus Ribes; Ribes (a flowering shrub bearing currants or gooseberries; native to northern hemisphere)


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