ribes sativum

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   garden currant bearing small white berries

   Synonymswhite currant

   Broadercurrant

   Part ofRibes

Questions about ribes sativum

What does ribes sativum mean?

ribes sativum means "garden currant bearing small white berries".

What is another word for ribes sativum?

Close synonyms include white 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 ribes sativum a common word?

ribes sativum 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.