cape gooseberry
- noun
- /keɪp ˈɡuːsbəri/
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- In the garden, they planted cape gooseberry to enjoy its sweet, tangy fruits in the summer.
Examples
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The tart flavor of cape gooseberry makes it perfect for jams and desserts.
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I bought some cape gooseberries at the market.
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After harvesting the cape gooseberry, she carefully removed the delicate husk from each fruit.
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The cape gooseberry is often used in desserts.
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She enjoys making a fruit salad with cape gooseberry, adding a unique flavor from its sweet, tangy taste.
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During the summer, the cape gooseberry plants in the garden produce bright yellow-orange fruits.
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The chef garnished the dessert with fresh cape gooseberry, highlighting its vibrant color and flavor.
Synonyms
A plant grown for its small edible orange-yellow fruits called Cape gooseberry or goldenberry
Surface Forms
Morphology
cape + gooseberry
A B1 learner who knows 'cape' (likely as a place/peninsula or geographical tag) and 'gooseberry' (a type of berry) will probably infer this is a variety of gooseberry associated with a place, so the broad category (a kind of berry/plant) is derivable. However, specific properties of the plant (the papery husk, yellow‑orange fruit, taxonomic differences from true gooseberries) are not predictable from the constituents, so the meaning is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Cape gooseberry comes from how the small South American plant reached Europe: it was sent through the Cape of Good Hope, so people added Cape, and because its round yellow fruits looked like tiny gooseberries they added gooseberry. That's why cape gooseberry now names the plant with small orange-yellow fruits inside a thin papery husk.
