gooseberry


Definition: Meaning of, gooseberry in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / ˈɡʊzb(ə)ri;ˈɡuːsb(ə)ri /

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gooseberry gooseberries
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  1. a small round green fruit that grows on a bush and has a sour taste
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  2. be a gooseberry also play gooseberry British English informal to be with two people who are having a romantic relationship and who want to be alone together
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gooseberry used in phrases

  • Barbados gooseberry (noun)
    1. small yellow to orange fruit of the Barbados gooseberry cactus used in desserts and preserves and jellies
    2. west Indian woody climber with spiny stems and numerous fragrant white flowers in panicles followed by small yellow to orange fruits
  • Barbados-gooseberry vine (noun)
    1. west Indian woody climber with spiny stems and numerous fragrant white flowers in panicles followed by small yellow to orange fruits
  • Ceylon gooseberry (noun)
    1. a small shrubby spiny tree cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasting like gooseberries; Sri Lanka and India
  • Chinese gooseberry (noun)
    1. fuzzy brown egg-shaped fruit with slightly tart green flesh
    2. climbing vine native to China; cultivated in New Zealand for its fuzzy edible fruit with green meat
  • cape gooseberry (noun)
    1. annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits
  • dwarf cape gooseberry (noun)
    1. stout hairy annual of eastern North America with sweet yellow fruits
  • gooseberry bush (noun)
    1. spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries
  • gooseberry family (noun)
    1. in some classifications considered a part of the family Saxifragaceae: plants whose fruit is a berry
  • sea gooseberry (noun)
    1. ctenophore having a rounded body with longitudinal rows of cilia
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