English gooseberry

American  

noun

1. a spiny Eurasian and northern African shrub, Ribes uva-crispa, of the saxifrage family, having green flowers in sparse clusters and acid, bristly green, red, or yellow fruit.

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English gooseberry

The varieties are less important than in most fruits, provided only you get the large varieties of English gooseberry.

From Soil Culture by J. H. Walden

I have been present when the English gooseberry and the English strawberry were very highly spoken of, too, but with me this is merely hearsay evidence; we reached England too late for berries.

From Europe Revised by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

Another fruit, of the species Mesembryanthemum, is of a less pleasing flavour; but one of the same species, resembling the English gooseberry, is said to be delicious.

From The Bushman — Life in a New Country by Edward Wilson Landor

I believe these are the berries which Captain Smith compared to the English gooseberry, and called Rawcomens; having, perhaps, seen them only on the bushes, where they are always very sour.

From The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Robert Beverley

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