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black currant
a. The fruit of the Ribes nigrum; also the shrub. Often used attrib., as in black-currant jam, black currant jelly, black currant tea, black currant wine, etc.
1629Parkinson Parad. iii. ii. 558 The blacke Curran bush riseth higher than the white. 1768Wales in Phil. Trans. LX. 119 These shrubs consist of willows..gooseberry, and black currants. 1769Mrs. Raffald Engl. Housekpr. (1778) 211 To make Black Currant Jelly. 1836Dickens Sk. Boz ii. (1850) 5 Anonymous presents of black-currant jam, and lozenges.
b. black currant (gall) mite, an insect pest that attacks currant and gooseberry bushes, but especially the black currant bush, living chiefly inside the buds and producing the disease known as ‘big bud’ (big a. B. 2).
1890E. A. Ormerod Man. Injurious Insects (ed. 2) iii. 303 The details of those of the Black Currant Gall Mite have not been described. 1918Board Agric. & Fisheries Leaflet No. 1. The disease known as ‘big bud’ in Black Currants, caused by the Black Currant Mite, was first recorded in these islands in the year 1869. |