gooseberry bush
- noun
- /ˈɡuːzbəri bʌʃ/
:
arbusto de grosella espinosa
- Grace looked at the gooseberry bushes so fragiles in the smooth darkness.
Examples
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So not very much later Grace had ended up next to Ma Ginger's gooseberry bushes in a mood that was not particularly good.
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Maybe... maybe the gooseberry bushes.
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"The heat had turned the soil among the gooseberry bushes to stone, but Grace did not complain."
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"Suddenly you could no longer imagine a berry that would appear one day on a gooseberry bush," but only see the thorn that was there right now.
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She was in a hurry and took the shortcut between the gooseberry bushes, only to be brought up by a shout.
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Those alabaster hands of yours are hereby engaged to weed the wild gooseberry bushes.
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After a few of the wild little gooseberry bushes had given up the ghost in the care of Grace's as yet unpracticed alabaster hands, things began looking up with the weeding and the town.
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This tree, Kendall told me, was most likely infected several years ago at a cool, moist time during late summer when the air was filled with billions of fungal spores released from infected currant and gooseberry bushes.
Academic text (1998) -
In my garden, the gooseberry bush produces delicious fruits that are perfect for making jam.
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The gooseberry bush thrives in sunny spots and adds beauty to any garden with its colorful berries.
Synonyms
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4.5
A small round sour fruit that grows on a low bush
A spiny shrub from Eurasia that has tart round berries called gooseberries
A small spiny bush that grows tart green or red berries called gooseberries used in jams
How Prickly
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8.8
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8.0
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1.0
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2.3
- US
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is a straightforward noun+noun combination where the second noun indicates a plant and the first specifies the fruit it bears; a learner who knows 'gooseberry' and 'bush' will readily infer it is a bush that produces gooseberries. This compositional, literal structure is a common and predictable pattern in English and in many other languages, making it transparent to B1 learners.
Etymology
Gooseberry bush names the shrub that grows gooseberries. Picture a small, spiky bush covered in round, edible berries—so the phrase means 'the shrub that bears gooseberries'.