- currant, currant bush - any of various deciduous shrubs of the genus Ribes bearing currants
--1 is a kind of shrub, bush
--1 is a member of Ribes, genus Ribes
--1 has particulars:red currant, garden current, Ribes rubrum; black currant, European black currant, Ribes nigrum; white currant, Ribes sativum; winter currant, Ribes sanguineum