gooseberry
the edible, acid, globular, sometimes spiny fruit of certain prickly shrubs belonging to the genus Ribes, of the saxifrage family, especially R. uva-crispa (or R. grossularia).
a shrub bearing this fruit.
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How to use gooseberry in a sentence
You can also see the remains of the “gooseberry”—the artificial breakwater the Allies created off the beach.
D-Day Historian Craig Symonds Talks About History’s Most Amazing Invasion | Marc Wortman | June 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt was gooseberry jam, and Bumper hated gooseberries, although he had never tasted of them before.
Bumper, The White Rabbit | George Ethelbert WalshBumper squealed with fright, and turned to the left to find shelter under some prickly gooseberry bushes.
Bumper, The White Rabbit | George Ethelbert WalshTo cut or prune gooseberry and currant-trees is very simple.
The Book of Sports: | William Martingooseberry-trees should be cut differently from currant-trees.
The Book of Sports: | William Martin
The fruit is very agreeable, and in taste resembles the gooseberry, and is very cooling.
British Dictionary definitions for gooseberry
/ (ˈɡʊzbərɪ, -brɪ) /
a Eurasian shrub, Ribes uva-crispa (or R. grossularia), having greenish, purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries: family Grossulariaceae: See also currant (def. 2)
the berry of this plant
(as modifier): gooseberry jam
British informal an unwanted single person in a group of couples, esp a third person with a couple (often in the phrase play gooseberry)
Cape gooseberry a tropical American solanaceous plant, Physalis peruviana, naturalized in southern Africa, having yellow flowers and edible yellow berries: See also ground cherry
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