Gooseberry

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A spiny European shrub (Ribes uva-crispa) having lobed leaves, greenish flowers, and edible greenish to yellow or red berries.
  • n. The fruit of this plant.
  • n. Any of several plants bearing similar fruit.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A fruit closely related to the currant.
  • n. Any of several other unrelated fruits, such as the Chinese gooseberry (kiwifruit) and the Indian gooseberry (amla).
  • n. An additional person who is neither necessary nor wanted in a given situation.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Any thorny shrub of the genus Ribes; also, the edible berries of such shrub. There are several species, of which Ribes Grossularia is the one commonly cultivated.
  • n. A silly person; a goose cap.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The berry or fruit of a plant of the genus Ribes, or the plant itself; in botany, a general term for the species of the genus Ribes which belong to the section Grossularia, as the name currant is applied to those of the section Ribesia.
  • n. A silly person; a goosecap.
  • Relating to or made of gooseberries: as, gooseberry wine.
  • n. The farkleberry, Batodendron arboreum: doubtless so called from its somewhat similar fruit. See farkleberry.
  • n. The Coromandel goosebery (which see).
  • n. One of several species of Polycodium. See squaw-huckleberry.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. currant-like berry used primarily in jams and jellies
  • n. spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries
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    currant    shrub    bush   
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    chokecherry    blackberry    currant    redberry    crab apple    whortleberry    apricot    pineapple    mulberry    plum