gooseberry
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- noun
- /ˈɡuːzbəri/
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grosella espinosa
- I picked fresh gooseberries from the bush in my backyard yesterday.
- gooseberry tart
- gooseberry bush
- gooseberry fool
Examples
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For dessert, she served a delicious gooseberry tart with cream.
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After the storm, we discovered the gooseberry bushes had survived and were full of fruit.
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Be sure to save us some gooseberry fool.
Fiction book (1999) -
On second thought, I think it might be wise to make sure of the gooseberry fool now.
Fiction book (1999) -
The first one is made with gooseberries, which appeared in the beginning of July around here.
Blog text (17) -
Molly was happy to sit beside it and take tiny bites of her gooseberry fool.
Fiction book (1999) -
Yes, and plum pudding and gooseberry pie--
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No crumpets, no scones, no gooseberry tart.
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Give her some gooseberries.
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Going to pick gooseberries.
Synonyms
A small spiny bush that produces edible green or red berries
A small spiny bush that grows tart green or red berries called gooseberries used in jams
A spiny shrub from Eurasia that has tart round berries called gooseberries
Idioms
Compounds
A small South American plant with sweet yellow-orange fruits inside a thin paper husk
A small spiny tree from Sri Lanka and India that has purple fruit with sweet, tart flesh
A woody climbing plant with spiny stems, white fragrant flowers, and small orange-yellow fruit
A West Indian climbing plant with spiny stems, white scented flowers, and small yellow or orange fruits
- Specialized
A group of flowering plants that includes gooseberries and currants
- Archaic
Either a person who gets involved in other people's business or a traditional card game
- Specialized
A small round sea animal like a tiny jellyfish that swims using tiny hairs
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Etymology
Gooseberry joins goose and berry, and the name probably came into English from old European words for the fruit. A helpful way to remember it is to picture a small, tart 'berry' that people once served with roast 'goose' or that had a foreign name sounding like 'goose', so today gooseberry simply means a small, sour fruit.