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- A currant is a berry of a small seedless
- variety of cultivated grape Vitis vinifera.
- Currants are grown on a large scale in
- Greece and California and used dried in
- cooking and baking. Because of the similarity
- of the fruit, the name currant is also given
- to several species of shrubs in the genus
- Ribes, family Grossulariaceae.
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- Subject by: Mervin Dykes
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