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Gooseberry

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Noun

1. gooseberry, gooseberry bush, ribes grossularia, ribes uva-crispa

spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries

2. gooseberry

currant-like berry used primarily in jams and jellies

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Gooseberry

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noun plural -ries
1. 
a Eurasian shrub, Ribes uva-crispa (or R. grossularia), having greenish, purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries: family Grossulariaceae
See also currant (sense 2)
2. 
a. 
the berry of this plant
b. 
(as modifier)
gooseberry jam
3. British informal
an unwanted single person in a group of couples, esp a third person with a couple (often in the phrase play gooseberry)
4.  Cape gooseberry

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Gooseberry

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nounWord forms: plural ˈgooseˌberries
1. 
a small, sour berry used in making preserves, pies, etc.: it resembles a currant but is larger
2. 
any of various prickly shrubs (genus Ribes) of the saxifrage family which produce gooseberries

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Gooseberry

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n.
1.
a. Any of several spiny shrubs of the genus Ribes, especially R. uva-crispa of Eurasia, having lobed leaves, greenish flowers, and edible greenish to yellow or red berries.
b. The fruit of any of these plants.
2. Any of several plants bearing similar fruit.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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