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A blackcurrant is a small, round berry, so dark it looks almost black, with a little blue shine. It grows in hanging bunches on a bush, not on a tree. The taste is strong and rather sour. In Britain people boil it into jam and a dark-purple drink for children; you will hear the word much more in British English than in American English, because the bush was uncommon in the US for a long time. It is not a grape. It is also not the tiny dry “currant” in fruitcake — those are little dried grapes from another plant. The spelling is currant, like the fruit, not current, like water or electricity.
黑加侖、黑醋栗（台灣飲料和糖果上常寫「黑加侖」；不是葡萄乾那種 currant）
組成black + currant. Black is the colour of the ripe berry; currant is the fruit name.
同家族的字
- redcurrantthe red berry from a related bush, same currant
- currantthe fruit this is built from — not the word current
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
blackcurrantnoun/ˈblækˌkʌɹənt/
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A shrub, Ribes nigrum, that produces small, very dark purple, edible berries.
- 1993, R. D. Davidson, 19: The vegetation of Lough Neagh wetlands, R.B. Wood, R.V. Smith (editors), Lough Neagh: The Ecology of a Multipurpose Water Resource, Monographae Biologicae: Volume 69, page 487, Blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum) and guelder rose (Viburnum opulus) are frequent but alder buckthorn (Frangula alnus) a common constituent of East Anglian carr is very rare.
- Blackcurrant leaf has a diuretic action [11,12,14], therefore it should not be taken concurrently with diuretics indicated for cardiac or renal insufficiency except on medical advice.
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The berry borne by this shrub.
- Their wines are intense and elegant, tasting of blackcurrants and made to be aged.
- Blackcurrant jam is easy, but this year I have left the blackcurrants so long that they are sweet and ripe enough to eat raw: delicious rolled in a crunch of granulated sugar.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。