black currant

Questions about black currant

What does black currant mean?

black currant means "widely cultivated current bearing edible black aromatic berries". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for black currant?

Close synonyms include European black currant, Ribes nigrum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is black currant a common word?

black currant is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.