currant bush

1. 1.

   any of various deciduous shrubs of the genus Ribes bearing currants

   Synonymscurrant

   Broadershrub

   Narrowerred currantblack currantwhite currantwinter currant

   Part ofRibes

Questions about currant bush

What does currant bush mean?

currant bush means "any of various deciduous shrubs of the genus Ribes bearing currants".

What is another word for currant bush?

Close synonyms include currant. 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 currant bush a common word?

currant bush is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.