garden currant

4.8

A small garden bush that produces tart red berries for cooking and jam

noun

: grosella roja

She made jam from the garden currant bushes in her backyard.

Examples

The garden currant is a popular fruit in European gardens.
I love using garden currants in my pies.
A tart dessert can be enhanced by a handful of fresh garden currants.
The garden currant is ripe for picking.
A tart dessert can be enhanced by a handful of fresh garden currants.
She made jam from the garden currant bushes in her backyard.
I love using garden currants in my homemade pies.

Synonyms

Ribes rubrum

vsgarden currant

Specialized

8.9

A European bush that grows small red berries used for eating and making jam

is the common cultivated European shrub used especially for cooking and jams

red currant

vsgarden currant

3.6

A small sour bright red berry that grows on a bush and is used for jam and desserts

describes the cultivated shrub that bears these berries for cooking

currant bush

vsgarden currant

4.2

A small bush that grows red or black berries

is the specific cultivated European shrub grown for red edible berries

How Tart

lemon

318 1.0

cranberry

61 1.4

garden currant

4.8

raspberry

64 1.0

blueberry

96 1.0

Surface Forms

garden currant singular

garden currants plural

Morphology

garden + currant

The meaning is directly compositional: 'garden' specifies cultivation/place and 'currant' names the berry, so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to currants grown or cultivated in a garden (or the shrub that produces them). This noun–noun compounding is a standard, cross-linguistically common pattern in English and therefore immediately understandable to a B1 learner.

Etymology

Garden currant gets its name from small currant bushes people used to grow in their gardens in Europe. Imagine a low shrub full of bright red berries picked for 'jam' and cooking, and that image explains why the phrase means a grown shrub with edible berries.