gooseberry

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A fruit closely related to the currant

We had a good haul of gooseberries from our tree this year.

Any of several other unrelated fruits, such as the Chinese gooseberry (kiwifruit) and the Indian gooseberry (amla)
an additional person that is neither necessary nor wanted in a given situation

Robert and Susan were so in love with each other that nobody could go near them without feeling like a gooseberry.

{n} the name of a bush and its fruit
currant-like berry used primarily in jams and jellies
currant-like berry used primarily in jams and jellies spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries
A gooseberry is a small green fruit that has a sharp taste and is covered with tiny hairs. Hardy fruit bush of the Northern Hemisphere, often placed in the genus Ribes with the currant (or alternatively assigned to the genus Grossularia as its sole member), in the family Saxifragaceae. The spiny bushes bear clusters of greenish to greenish-pink flowers. The tart, oval berries may be prickly, hairy, or smooth. They are eaten ripe and often made into jellies, preserves, pies and other desserts, or wine. Because gooseberry is an alternate host for white-pine blister rust, growing it is illegal in some states where white pine is an important resource
There are several species, of which Ribes Grossularia is the one commonly cultivated
Any thorny shrub of the genus Ribes; also, the edible berries of such shrub
Large tart berries used in jams, jellies, pies and desserts The English and French use this berry to make gooseberry sauce for use with boiled or baked mackerel
spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries
{i} edible berry; shrub which bears this fruit; fragment polarity gene of Drosophila
a berry with a green, yellow or red-black skin
Low, edible fruit bearing shrubs, of the genus Ribes Closely related to the currants and, like the currants, a secondary host for White Pine Blister Rust Represented in the North Country by the Northern Gooseberry (Ribes oxyacanthoides) among others Jâbominagawanj in the Ojibwe
A silly person; a goose cap
Fox Talbot says this is St John's berry, being ripe about St John's Day [This must be John the Baptist, at the end of August, not John the Evangelist, at the beginning of May ] Hence, he says, it is called in Holland Jansbeeren Jans'-beeren, he continues, has been corrupted into Gansbeeren, and Gans is the German for goose This is very ingenious, but gorse (furze) offers a simpler derivation Gorse-berry (the prickly berry) would be like the German stachel-beere (the "prickly berry"), and kraus - beere (the rough gooseberry), from krauen (to scratch) Krausbeere, Gorse-berry, Gooseberry In Scotland it is called grosser (See Bear's Garlick ) To play gooseberry is to go with two lovers for appearance' sake The person "who plays propriety" is expected to hear, see, and say nothing (See Gooseberry Picker ) He played up old gooseberry with me He took great liberties with my property, and greatly abused it; in fact, he made gooseberry fool of it (See below
gooseberry rust
any of several parasitic fungi that grow on gooseberry bushes
Chinese gooseberry
kiwi fruit
cape gooseberry
The fruit of this plant
cape gooseberry
A tropical South American plant, Physalis peruviana, with a bright yellow, edible fruit
gooseberry.
goosegog
A gooseberry
feaberry
Cape gooseberry
A tropical South American plant (Physalis peruviana) having yellow flowers with purple centers and an inflated calyx enclosing an edible yellow berry used to make jam, sauces, and desserts
barbados gooseberry
small yellow to orange fruit of the Barbados gooseberry cactus used in desserts and preserves and jellies West Indian woody scrambler with spiny stems and numerous fragrant white flowers in panicles followed by small yellow to orange fruits
cape gooseberry
annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits
chinese gooseberry
climbing vine native to China; cultivated in New Zealand for its fuzzy edible fruit with green meat
gooseberries
plural of gooseberry
sea gooseberry
ctenophore having a rounded body with longitudinal rows of cilia
sea gooseberry
A ctenophore of the genus Pleurobrachia, having two tentacles and a round iridescent body
gooseberry