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