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Noun: white currant
  1. Garden currant bearing small white berries
    "White currants are often used in preserves and jellies";
    - Ribes sativum
     
  2. The white translucent edible berry of a group of cultivars of the red currant (Ribes rubrum)
    "White currants are rarely specified in savoury cooking recipes compared with their red counterparts"

Derived forms: white currants

Type of: currant, currant bush

Part of: genus Ribes, Ribes

Encyclopedia: White currant