| 释义 | blackcurrant/blakˈkʌr(ə)nt /noun1A small round edible black berry which grows in loose hanging clusters.There were stalls piled with pyramids of different coloured berries - deep purple blackcurrants, scarlet strawberries, pink lingonberries and bright orange slushy cloudberries....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.Others, such as cooking apples, raspberries, blackcurrants, redcurrants and gooseberries, have more pectin and set without any help.
2The widely cultivated shrub which bears blackcurrants.The blackcurrant, R. nigrum, was first cultivated a century later than the red, and for a long time was considered to be distinctly inferior....Ribes nigrum, family Grossulariaceae.
 Elderberries and blackcurrants grew in the hedgerows.The original blackcurrants grew in N. Europe and in Asia as far east as the Himalayas.
Rhymesconcurrent, currant, current, occurrent, redcurrant |