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Currant may refer to:

• The white currant, redcurrant or the blackcurrant, a berry of the genus Ribes

• The Zante currant, a small dark dried fruit made from small Greek Black Corinth grapes, similar to a Raisin only smaller.

• Currant tomatoes (Solanum pimpinellifolium), a particularly small variety of cherry tomato

• The currant-tree, a variety of Serviceberry (Amelanchier)

[edit] See also

• Current (disambiguation)

[edit] Etymology

The word came into English from the Anglo-French phrase "raisin de Corauntz", that referred to small seedless raisins imported from Corinthia in southern Greece. This phrase was first attested in 1334 as "raysyn of Curans" (raisins of Corinth). The word was transferred to the unrelated northern European berries from the genus Ribes when they were introduced to England in 1578. The French for grape is raisin and the French for dried grape is raisin sec.

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