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单词 redcurrant
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Definition of redcurrant in English:

redcurrant

noun rɛdˈkʌr(ə)nt
  • 1A small, sweet red berry, chiefly used to make a jelly eaten as an accompaniment to cold meats.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I went for the roast chicken breast stuffed with Brie and sun-blushed tomatoes and served with a sauce of port and redcurrant.
    • Last week, they all boasted beautiful crops of various berries - blueberries, raspberries and redcurrants (red or white, the white being, surprisingly, sweeter and milder in taste).
    • Blackcurrants, redcurrants and tayberries are due in a couple of weeks.
    • And as Georgia, clutching a plastic punnet, tugs on her mother's sleeve and begs her to accompany her to the redcurrants, it's clear that the most enthusiastic fruit-pickers live on-site.
    • The one I'll be making this weekend will contain redcurrants, blackcurrants, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries (I'm going blackberrying when I've finished this!) and peach.
    • In a few weeks the soft fruit which includes raspberries, redcurrants, gooseberries and blackcurrants will be available and the strawberries are already ripening and are ready to enjoy.
    • With a seriously stuffed belly, we were tempted by a warm chocolate brownie garnished with redcurrants and ice cream, and a crepe filled with mangoes and strawberries.
    • Before the main course was served, a refreshing fruity sorbet made from redcurrants and raspberries cleared the palates.
    • The venison had strength of flavour, matched with a deeply glazed sauce of bacon, red wine, port, redcurrant and wild mushrooms.
    • In the past it's always been those nasty orange balls of salmon roe, like unripe redcurrants that pop with an unclean fishy aftertaste in your mouth.
    • Others, such as cooking apples, raspberries, blackcurrants, redcurrants and gooseberries, have more pectin and set without any help.
    • Get some robust, artisan bread, like a sourdough, then go wild on the fruit: blackberries, blueberries, redcurrants, raspberries, wild strawberries - again, it doesn't matter what.
    • The coconut oak nose is enticing and carries through to the palate where it mixes with cherry, redcurrants and zinging tannins.
    • My friend who was staying last night likes to add mint and lemon juice; I sometimes add redcurrants for a stronger colour.
    • The tiny garnish of redcurrants is more to the point.
    • Mix the redcurrants and blueberries into the strawberries.
    • It is medium bodied with slightly sweet, red fruit flavours of rhubarb, strawberry and redcurrant.
    • The ornamental fruit garden has every known fruit, from apricots to redcurrants.
    • For dessert I chose hot berries - a wonderful combination of blackberries, strawberries and redcurrants mixed in a Cointreau sauce and poured into a tall glass, topped with a blob of vanilla ice-cream.
    • I am quite content to eat them out of hand, or paired with redcurrants in my mother's fruit salads.
  • 2The shrub which produces the redcurrant, related to the blackcurrant.

    Ribes rubrum, family Grossulariaceae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Now is a good time for pruning soft fruit bushes, such as whitecurrants, redcurrants, gooseberries, blackcurrants and briar fruits.
    • Of the soft fruits, gooseberries and redcurrants can be left as a bush or grown as a standard.
    • The gooseberry sawfly also targets white and redcurrants, so it's worth keeping a close eye on them too.
    • The gooseberries are usually placed in genus Ribes, along with their near cousins, the blackcurrants and redcurrants.
    • Prune gooseberries and redcurrants if you haven't already done so.
    • In season, raspberries, strawberries, blackcurrants, redcurrants and brambles run riot across Scotland.
    • For the small garden, consider ordering redcurrants or autumn raspberry ‘Autumn Bliss’ to grow in tubs.
    • Since the early 1970s, George McLaren has been growing several varieties of strawberries and raspberries, redcurrants, blackcurrants, whitecurrants and gooseberries.

Rhymes

blackcurrant, concurrent, currant, current, occurrent
 
 
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