(n.) A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; -- used in cookery.
(n.) The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant.
(n.) A shrub or bush of several species of the genus Ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the Ribes rubrum.
Example Sentences:
(1) Remove the red and black currants from their stalks and add to the berries, then tip in the water and sugar and bring to the boil.
(2) The juice of black currants contained relatively larger residues.
(3) A method for the determination of Benomyl and Carbendazim in apples, red-currants, grapes, kale, and sugar beets was developed.
(4) You must crouch by a Neff like a coiled spring and hyperventilate every time a currant twitches in the heat.
(5) Yvonne Roberts’s baby boomer view: ‘The perils of a moneyless old age have been brought forward’ Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Katherine Anne Rose for the Observer Miranda Sawyer says she hasn’t written a self-help manual, but it’s an often wise and reflective book that drops more famous names than currants in a fruitcake.
(6) Beatrice Ask of Sweden's ruling Conservative party posted a link to the Daily Currant's satire article, which jokingly – and erroneously – claimed that marijuana overdoses killed 37 people in Colorado on the first day of legalisation.
(7) Desaturase activity was influenced more by the black currant than by the borage diet, especially at 6 and 9 months of age.
(8) The concentrations of the examined phenolic acids in black currants related to the whole fruit (mg per fruit) increased, and related to fresh weight (mg per 1000 g) decreased during the growth of the fruits with the exception of protocatechuic acid, which appeared mostly in a last stage of the fruit.
(9) The first group included beef and fish broths, boiled meat, rye bread, cabbage, tomato, apple, cherry and black currant juices, rhubarb infusion, fresh kefir, carrot and pumpkin purees.
(10) At the gift shop, visitors can try the red, white and sparkling produce, all made from currant varieties (rather than grapes) grown locally.
(11) Feeding black currant seed oil resulted in significant increases of dihomogamma-linolenic acid (20:3 n-6) in all liver lipid classes examined, whereas the levels of arachidonic acid (20:4 n-6) remained relatively stable.
(12) The motley contents of my baking cupboard – some flour, sugar, a handful of currants and a few crusty tins of syrup – are hardly inspiring, but I've vowed not to leave the house until the weather brightens.
(13) Supply of black-currant seed oil rich in gamma-linolenic (C18:3 omega 6) and stearidonic (C18:4 omega 3) acids (diet C) induced significant increases of dihomo-gamma-linolenic and eicosapentaenoic (C20:5 omega 3) acids, without influencing arachidonic acid (C20:4 omega 6) levels.
(14) A lot has been done – concrete paving slabs removed and replaced with currant plants; waste materials used to create raised beds (known as "hugelkultur"); privet, ivy and leylandii removed.
(15) This paper reports the gross and rapid condensation of isoniazid in a commercial black-currant-flavoured syrup.
(16) As soon as the mixture boils, lower the heat so that the mixture bubbles gently, then leave it to simmer for 10 minutes or so, until the currants have started to burst and the colour of the juice is a rich purple-red.
(17) Black, red, and white currants, gooseberries and cultivated blueberries contained only small amounts of catechins (total up to 30 mg per kg).
(18) Studies on the residual behaviour of Ethephon on black and red currants showed that the fruits contained on an average 0.39, 0.81, 2.2 and 0.64, 1.14, 1.04 p.p.m.
(19) Increased levels of GLA and DHLA were present in the plasma phospholipid fraction of animals fed the black currant seed oil diet, while soy-fed animals had only trace amounts of GLA.
(20) Black currant extract and lyophilisate revealed significant anti-inflammatory activity comparable to that seen with the reference substances, but without their ulcerogenic potential, even at high doses during chronic treatment.
Garibaldi
Definition:
(n.) A jacket worn by women; -- so called from its resemblance in shape to the red shirt worn by the Italians patriot Garibaldi.
(n.) A California market fish (Pomancentrus rubicundus) of a deep scarlet color.
Example Sentences:
(1) This song was sung by Garibaldi when he kicked the Bourbons out of Sicily.
(2) This is the beginning of the slow, sad march that ends with the cheapest possible care home and being pathetically grateful for a visit twice a year and a plate of garibaldis.
(3) If you don’t have time for an excursion, join the queue of students and office workers for a blow-out sandwich at Walter Clinica del Panino or the legendary Pepen , both a few metres from the central Piazza Garibaldi.
(4) French revolutionaries, preferring Garibaldis to Bourbons, were not taken with Henri.
(5) Afflicted by diabetes, he spent his last years writing about Giuseppe Garibaldi, the hero of Italian unification, and sending self-justificatory faxes to newspaper editors from his seaside villa in Hammamet.
(6) Grillo said Giuseppe Garibaldi began his march to Rome after he landed in Sicily in 1860, leading to unification of the country under the Savoy monarchy, and allied armies landed on the island in 1943 before ejecting the Nazis from Italy .
(7) "Garibaldi brought the Savoys, the Americans brought the mafia, and none of them actually swam here," he said.
(8) • North of Metro stop Garibaldi, Sundays 9am-5pm WHERE TO STAY The Red Tree House, Condesa Facebook Twitter Pinterest This friendly B&B is in a remodelled 1920s art deco home on a quiet residential street.
(9) After placing three bouquets of blue and yellow flowers – the colours of the EU – on the marble tombstone, the leaders held a working dinner on the aircraft carrier Garibaldi, the Italian flagship of the EU’s “Sophia” migrant-rescue and anti-people-trafficking mission in the Mediterranean.
(10) Take The Leopard , Luchino Visconti's adaptation of Giuseppe di Lampedusa's novel about the decline of the Sicilian nobility during the Risorgimento: The Thousand – Garibaldi's Red Shirts – look like The Ten Thousand, thanks to the massed slave-armies of the cinematic city-state of Cinecittà Studios, and it seems there are more figures crowding its lavish ballroom sequence than there were on the Normandy beaches in The Longest Day, released the year before.
(11) The mayor's office on Parma's Piazza Garibaldi seems too vast and luxurious for the current holder of the office, Federico Pizzarotti, 41, elected on a Five Star Movement (M5S) list in May 2012.
(12) Your farm is your financial life, and when you decide you’re going to change the way you’re doing your business, you’re kind of putting it at risk,” Chris Garibaldi, a cherry farmer in California, said in a story about initiatives by General Mills and Kashi to encourage farmers to go organic.
(13) Italy would probably be better off today if Giuseppe Garibaldi had never launched unification.