garden currant
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- noun
- UK
- She made jam from the garden currant bushes in her backyard.
Examples
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The garden currant is a popular fruit in European gardens.
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I love using garden currants in my pies.
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A tart dessert can be enhanced by a handful of fresh garden currants.
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The garden currant is ripe for picking.
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A tart dessert can be enhanced by a handful of fresh garden currants.
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She made jam from the garden currant bushes in her backyard.
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I love using garden currants in my homemade pies.
Synonyms
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A small sour bright red berry that grows on a bush and is used for jam and desserts
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A small bush that grows red or black berries
A European bush that grows small red berries used for eating and making jam
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Surface Forms
Morphology
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.