Dried+grape

  • 41Ribes aureum — Currant Cur rant (k?r rant), n. [F. corinthe (raisins de Corinthe raisins of Corinth) currant (in sense 1), from the city of Corinth in Greece, whence, probably, the small dried grape (1) was first imported, the Ribes fruit (2) receiving the name …

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  • 42Ribes floridum — Currant Cur rant (k?r rant), n. [F. corinthe (raisins de Corinthe raisins of Corinth) currant (in sense 1), from the city of Corinth in Greece, whence, probably, the small dried grape (1) was first imported, the Ribes fruit (2) receiving the name …

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  • 43Ribes nigrum — Currant Cur rant (k?r rant), n. [F. corinthe (raisins de Corinthe raisins of Corinth) currant (in sense 1), from the city of Corinth in Greece, whence, probably, the small dried grape (1) was first imported, the Ribes fruit (2) receiving the name …

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  • 44Ribes rubrum — Currant Cur rant (k?r rant), n. [F. corinthe (raisins de Corinthe raisins of Corinth) currant (in sense 1), from the city of Corinth in Greece, whence, probably, the small dried grape (1) was first imported, the Ribes fruit (2) receiving the name …

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  • 45Ribes rubrum — Currant Cur rant (k?r rant), n. [F. corinthe (raisins de Corinthe raisins of Corinth) currant (in sense 1), from the city of Corinth in Greece, whence, probably, the small dried grape (1) was first imported, the Ribes fruit (2) receiving the name …

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  • 46raisin — rai|sin [ˈreızən] n [Date: 1300 1400; : French; Origin: grape , from Latin racemus bunch of grapes ] a dried ↑grape …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 47raisin — [13] Raisin comes ultimately from a Latin word that meant ‘bunch of grapes’. This was racēmus (source also of English raceme [18]). It passed via Vulgar Latin *racīmus into Old French as raisin, by which time it had come to mean just ‘grape’… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 48raisin — ► NOUN ▪ a partially dried grape. DERIVATIVES raisiny adjective. ORIGIN Old French, grape , from an alteration of Latin racemus bunch of grapes …

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  • 49raisiny — raisin ► NOUN ▪ a partially dried grape. DERIVATIVES raisiny adjective. ORIGIN Old French, grape , from an alteration of Latin racemus bunch of grapes …

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  • 50raisin — [13] Raisin comes ultimately from a Latin word that meant ‘bunch of grapes’. This was racēmus (source also of English raceme [18]). It passed via Vulgar Latin *racīmus into Old French as raisin, by which time it had come to mean just ‘grape’… …

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