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RIBES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A flowering shrub bearing currants or gooseberries; native to northern hemisphere
Synonyms:
genus Ribes; Ribes
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Ribes" is a kind of...):
plant genus (a genus of plants)
Meronyms (members of "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 ("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)
