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    GENUS RIBES

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A flowering shrub bearing currants or gooseberries; native to northern hemisphereplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Ribes; Ribes

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("genus Ribes" is a kind of...):

    plant genus (a genus of plants)

    Meronyms (members of "genus Ribes"):

    currant; currant bush (any of various deciduous shrubs of the genus Ribes bearing currants)

    garden current; red currant; Ribes rubrum (cultivated European current bearing small edible red berries)

    black currant; European black currant; Ribes nigrum (widely cultivated current bearing edible black aromatic berries)

    Ribes sativum; white currant (garden currant bearing small white berries)

    Ribes sanguineum; winter currant (a flowering shrub)

    gooseberry; gooseberry bush; Ribes grossularia; Ribes uva-crispa (spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries)

    Holonyms ("genus Ribes" is a member of...):

    family Grossulariaceae; gooseberry family; Grossulariaceae (in some classifications considered a part of the family Saxifragaceae: plants whose fruit is a berry)

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