n. 1 a dried fruit of a small seedless variety of grape grown in the Levant and much used in cookery. 2 a any of various shrubs of the genus Ribes producing red, white, or black berries. b a berry of these shrubs. flowering currant an ornamental species of currant native to n. America.
[ ME raysons of coraunce f. AF, = grapes of Corinth (the orig. source) ]