genus ribes

1. 1.

   a flowering shrub bearing currants or gooseberries; native to northern hemisphere

   SynonymsRibes

   Broaderplant genus

   Part ofGrossulariaceae

Questions about genus ribes

What does genus ribes mean?

genus ribes means "a flowering shrub bearing currants or gooseberries; native to northern hemisphere".

What is another word for genus ribes?

Close synonyms include Ribes. 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 genus ribes a common word?

genus ribes 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.