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‖ ribes Now Bot.|ˈraɪbiːz|
Also 6 rybes; 9 erron. rhibes.
[a. med.L. ribes (whence also F., Sp., and It. ribes, Da. ribs), ad. Arab. rībās (also rībāz, rīwāz, Pers. rībāj), sorrel.
The meaning of the Arab. word was retained in med.L.: a1387Sinon. Barthol. 36 ‘Ribes, acedula’; c 1450Alphita 2 ‘Acedula, ribes,..sourdocke’. Cf. also the mod. botanical name Rheum Ribes, a species of rhubarb.]
†1. As pl. (Red, Black, or White) Currants. Obs.
1562Turner Baths 15 b, A littell bread stieped in the juyce of Pomegranates, Berberies, or Ribes. Ibid. 17 The syrope of rybes or berberis. 1578Lyte Dodoens 683 In Englishe, Redde Gooseberies..and common Ribes... In English, Blacke Gooseberies, or blacke Ribes. 1620Venner Via Recta vii. 124 Ribes, which with vs are commonly knowen by the name of Red Currants. 1657Purchas Pol. Flying-Ins. i. xv. 94 Bees gather of these flowers following... In April, Ribes, white, red.
2. Bot. A genus of plants comprising the currants and gooseberry.
1731Miller Gard. Dict., Ribes, the Currant-Tree. 1753Chambers Cycl. Suppl. App., Ribes, in botany, a general name given by Linnæus to the goosberry and currant bushes, which he makes one genus of plants, called by others Grossularia. 1807J. E. Smith Phys. Bot. 392 Thus Ribes, the Currant and Gooseberry genus,..stands in the fifth class. 1817J. Bradbury Trav. Amer. 74, I found a species of Ribes, or currant. 1873R. Broughton Nancy I. 97 ‘It is the colour of this,’ pointing to a branch of red rhibes. |