(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.
Ribes
Definition:
(n.) A genus of shrubs including gooseberries and currants of many kinds.
Example Sentences:
(1) Embelin, obtained from Embolin ribes was condensed with different primary amines.
(2) On the other hand organized screening programmes have never existed in the counties of Vestsjaelland, Viborg, Ringkøbing and Ribe.
(3) From September 1981 to February 1982, an epidemiologic study was carried out on the incidence of pain conditions among patients between 18 and 70 yr of age in 30 dental practices in Ribe County, Denmark.
(4) The authors also discuss the diagnostic criteria and the differential diagnosis from Pierre Marie disease, Ribing's syndrome, van Buchem's syndrome and acromegaly.
(5) Embelin, the active principle of the seeds of Embelia ribes Burm, has been isolated and the purity established.
(6) On the other hand, Ribes rubrum extracts seem to contain more active substances than the other crude extracts.
(7) In 1985 1,247 pregnancies were identified in Ribe county during a 6-month period.
(8) In this study we found retinal pathology and defects in visual behavior in chicks treated with Enkoko, Kosso, or embelin, a crystalline extract of E. ribes.
(9) In this report, we show that the non-conjugated octadecatetraenoic acid found in the oil of the seeds from Ribes nigrum is identical to the C18-polyunsaturated fatty acid previously isolated in a number of fish oils and seed oils.
(10) The major flavonol glycosides of ripe blackcurrants (Ribes nigrum cv.
(11) Ribes nigrum extracts exhibit the highest activity, being the richest in both anthocyanins and polyphenols.
(12) The naturally occurring anthelmintics, Embelia ribes (Enkoko) and Hagenia abyssinica (Kosso), have been reported to possibly cause optic atrophy among the Ethiopian population.
(13) The in vivo studies have been carried out in the rat brain for characterization of binding sites for potassium embelate (ex: Embelia ribes) a potent centrally acting analgesic compound.
(14) A hydroalcoholic extract of black currant (Ribes nigrum) leaves was tested on carrageenan-induced rat paw oedema.
(15) Potassium embelate, 2,5-dihydroxy, 3-undecyl-1, 4-benzoquinone, from Embelia ribes Burm.
(16) Intense positive reaction for alkaline phosphatase due to E. ribes extract has been correlated with its estrogenic mode of action.
(17) Total flavonoids (TF) extracted from Ribes nigrum leaves and their 2 major components, rutin and isoquercitrin had neither spasmodic nor relaxing activity on rat stomach strip.
(18) Throughout France, physicians randomly assigned 2295 women with vein insufficiency, which was either disclosed or aggravated by use of a combined oral contraceptive (OC), to the group treated by two doses of the extract of Ribes nigrum every day for 24 weeks or to the group treated with the same dose of the phlebotonic drug only during days 10-28 of the cycle (i.e., parallel with OC use).
(19) In vitro experiments were conducted on the inhibitory properties of extracts from Ribes nigrum L. and Alchemilla vulgaris L. (fractions A1 + A2, A1, A2) on activity of the proteolytic enzymes elastase, trypsin and alpha-chymotrypsin.
(20) It is based on an external hydraulic flow replenishing the salt loss due to combined electric and diffusional mass transport (similar to the concept of Ribes' steady-state rheoelectrolysis).