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Definition of blackcurrant in English: blackcurrantnoun blakˈkʌr(ə)nt 1A small round edible black berry that grows in loose hanging clusters. Example sentencesExamples - My mum used to make the world's best ever blackcurrant pie - she made home grown blackcurrants into a pie that I could polish off on my own over several evenings.
- We've had our first few raspberries today, and the blackcurrants are nearly ready to pick, at least a first pass for the early ripeners.
- Others, such as cooking apples, raspberries, blackcurrants, redcurrants and gooseberries, have more pectin and set without any help.
- 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.
- There were stalls piled with pyramids of different coloured berries - deep purple blackcurrants, scarlet strawberries, pink lingonberries and bright orange slushy cloudberries.
2The widely cultivated shrub that bears blackcurrants. Ribes nigrum, family Grossulariaceae Example sentencesExamples - The blackcurrant, R. nigrum, was first cultivated a century later than the red, and for a long time was considered to be distinctly inferior.
- The original blackcurrants grew in N. Europe and in Asia as far east as the Himalayas.
- They had gooseberries, blackcurrants, white currants and blackberries together with a really good stand of raspberry canes.
- In the fruit garden, blackcurrants that weren't pruned in the summer can be cut back by a third.
- Elderberries and blackcurrants grew in the hedgerows.
- Things that need a good period of chilling in the winter to form flower buds - things like blackcurrants, raspberries and apples - could see poor cropping as the winters warm up.
- The soft fruit bed looks fantastic this year, with raspberries and strawberries both covered in flowers, the blackcurrants heavy with fruit and the gooseberries almost sawfly free.
Rhymes concurrent, currant, current, occurrent, redcurrant |