different between currant vs currantlike

English

Borrowed from French raisin de Corinthe (literally “grapes of Corinth, the city in Greece”).

currant (plural currants)

A small dried grape, usually the Black Corinth grape, rarely more than 4mm diameter when dried.
The fruit of various shrubs of the genus Ribes, white, black or red.
A shrub bearing such fruit.

currant

currant +? -like

currantlike (comparative more currantlike, superlative most currantlike)

Resembling or characteristic of a currant.
- 1897, Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
  I saw some that had long red bunches of currantlike berries ambushed among the foliage.

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