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# currant

noun (a currant, currants)

«currant» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A small dried black grape without seeds, used in cakes, buns and puddings. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/currant/#m1)
2. A small round berry that grows in bunches on a bush: blackcurrant, redcurrant, whitecurrant. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/currant/#m2)

### In the lessons

In cooking, currants go in currant buns, Eccles cakes, spotted dick and Christmas pudding. In the nursery rhyme «Five currant buns in a baker's shop», and in maths problems with buns, currants can be counted. In Alice in Wonderland, Alice finds a little cake marked EAT ME «in currants». Blackcurrant juice is popular in the UK.

### Examples

- Five currant buns in a baker's shop, round and fat with a sugar on the top. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/currant/#x1)
- The cake had «EAT ME» written on it in currants. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/currant/#x2)
- We picked redcurrants in the garden. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/currant/#x3)
- Blackcurrants are full of vitamin C. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/currant/#x4)
- Put a handful of currants into the scone mixture. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/currant/#x5)
- Each bun has 8 currants; how many currants are in 5 buns? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/currant/#x6)
- She bought a loaf of brown bread and five currant buns. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/currant/#x7)

### Note

Homophone trap: currant (fruit) and current (flow of water or electricity; or «now»). Currant has -ant like «ant in the cake».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «currant» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/currant/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«currant» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/currant.html) on Mova free.