Definition of Ribes

1. Noun. A flowering shrub bearing currants or gooseberries; native to northern hemisphere.


Definition of Ribes

1. n. A genus of shrubs including gooseberries and currants of many kinds.

Definition of Ribes

1. a flowering shrub [n RIBES]

Medical Definition of Ribes

1. A genus of shrubs including gooseberries and currants of many kinds. Origin: NL.; cf. Dan. Ribs, and Ar. Ribas a plant with an acid juice. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ribes

ribboned
ribbonfish
ribbonfishes
ribboning
ribbonless
ribbonlike
ribbonry
ribbons
ribbonwoods
ribbony
ribby
ribcage
ribcages
riberry
ribes (current term)
ribeye
ribeye steak
ribeye steaks
ribeyes
ribibes
ribible
ribibles
ribier
ribiers
ribin
ribins

Literary usage of Ribes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1894)
"ribes aureum Pursh, FI. Am. Sept. 164 (1814). ribes longiflorum Nutt. in Fras. Cat. (1813), name only. 2031. ribes cereum Dougl. Trans. Hort. Soc. ..."

2. Bulletin of the National Research Council by National Research Council (U.S.) (1921)
"In the New England States and New York the work is devoted almost entirely to perfecting cheap and effective methods of destroying wild ribes; to practical ..."

3. Muhlenbergia: A Journal of Botany edited by Amos Arthur Heller, Patrick Beveridge Kennedy (1907)
"Specimens have often been distributed as ribes Menziesii, but the ones offered ... ribes Menziesii ribes missouriense ribes occidentale ribes Parishii ribes ..."

4. Report on the Injurious Insects and Other Animals Observed in the Midland by Walter Edward Collinge (1906)
"Various correspondents have forwarded branches of ribes ■alpinum covered with ... Galls on ribes alpinum. In some of the specimens the larvae were found, ..."

5. Select Extra-tropical Plants Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1880)
"ribes rotundifolium, Michaux. t North America, as far as Canada. Yields part of the smooth Gooseberries of the United States. The fruit is small, ..."

6. Notes on Some Upper Cretaceous Volutidae, with Descriptions of New Species by William Healey Dall (1908)
"ADDITIONAL NOTES ON MEXICAN PLANTS OF THE GENUS ribes BY JN ROSE In ... Nelson and Goldman have re-collected ribes ... A new species from Hidalgo, ribes ..."

7. The Monthly Chronicle (1839)
"ribes sanguineum, the red-blossomed currant, was introduced in 1826; and when we look at the immense number of these shrubs lately planted in the ..."

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