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means A small, round, translucent red berry, intensely tart, that grows in clusters on a shrub of the gooseberry family and is used mostly in jellies, sauces, and desserts.

from A plain English compound: 'red' for the colour plus 'currant', and that second word carries a tasty mix-up. 'Currant' comes from 'raisins of Corauntz' — Anglo-French for the small dried grapes of Corinth, the Greek city. When Europeans later met these unrelated tart berries, they borrowed the same name because the fruits looked similarly small and bunched, so the modern berry inherited a name that originally belonged to a dried grape from Greece. 'Red' was simply tacked on to tell it apart from its black and white cousins.