currant
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
currant/ˈkʌrənt/
▶noun
- 1 a small dried fruit made from a small seedless variety of grape, used in cookery.
- 2 used in names of various small edible berries and the shrubs which produce them, e.g. blackcurrant, white currant.
– origin ME raisons of Corauntz, translating Anglo-Norman Fr. raisins de Corauntz ‘grapes of Corinth’ (the original source).
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