Ribes

Ri´bes

n.

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(Bot.) A genus of shrubs including gooseberries and currants of many kinds.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

Ribes - a flowering shrub bearing currants or gooseberries; native to northern hemisphere genus Ribes plant genus - a genus of plants family Grossulariaceae, gooseberry family, Grossulariaceae - in some classifications considered a part of the family Saxifragaceae: plants whose fruit is a berry currant bush, currant - 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