Currant: alternatives and connections

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Currant

A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; -- used in cookery.

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Berry 76% connected

Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc.

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Bush 76% connected

A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.

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Raisin 76% connected

A grape, or a bunch of grapes.

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Shrub 76% connected

A liquor composed of vegetable acid, especially lemon juice, and sugar, with spirit to preserve it.

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Gooseberry 76% connected

Any thorny shrub of the genus Ribes; also, the edible berries of such shrub. There are several species, of which Ribes Grossularia is the one commonl…

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