■ noun
1》 a small dried fruit made from a small seedless variety of grape, used in cookery.
2》 used in names of various small edible berries and the shrubs which produce them, e.g. black~ , white ~ .
Origin
ME raisons of Corauntz , translating Anglo-Norman Fr. raisins de Corauntz 'grapes of Corinth' (the original source).