Thesaurus: gooseberry

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1. a. 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.
2. a. A silly person; a goose cap.
3. n. spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries
4. n. currant-like berry used primarily in jams and jellies
5. 1. (Bot.) 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. 2. A silly person; a goose cap. Goldsmith. Barbadoes gooseberry, a climbing prickly shrub (Pereskia aculeata) of the West Indies, which bears edible berries resembling gooseberries. -- Coromandel gooseberry. See Carambola. -- Gooseberry fool. See lst Fool. -- Gooseberry worm (Zoöl.), the larva of a small moth (Dakruma convolutella). It destroys the gooseberry by eating the interior.
6. Any thorny shrub of the genus Ribes; also, the edible berriesof such shrub. There are several species, of which Ribes Grossulariais the one commonly cultivated.
7. n:100 n. spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries n. currant-like berry used primarily in jams and jellies