garnetberry

English

Etymology

garnet +‎ berry, from its colour.

Noun

garnetberry (plural garnetberries)

  1. The red currant.
    • 1986, Yechiel Granatstein, The War of a Jewish Partisan, page 122:
      I emptied my tobacco can and boiled in it some blackberries that I gathered, and garnetberries that I found nearby; and this I fed him, till his strength returned to him.
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