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gooseberry bush — noun spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple tinged flowers and ovoid yellow green or red purple berries • Syn: ↑gooseberry, ↑Ribes uva crispa, ↑Ribes grossularia • Hypernyms: ↑shrub, ↑bush • Member Holonyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
bush-fruit — bushˈ fruit noun A fruit growing on a bush, such as gooseberry or raspberry • • • Main Entry: ↑bush … Useful english dictionary
Gooseberry — Taxobox name = Gooseberry image width = 250px image caption = Cultivated Eurasian gooseberry regnum = Plantae divisio = Magnoliophyta classis = Magnoliopsida ordo = Saxifragales familia = Grossulariaceae genus = Ribes species = R. uva crispa… … Wikipedia
gooseberry — /goohs ber ee, beuh ree, goohz /, n., pl. gooseberries. 1. the edible, acid, globular, sometimes spiny fruit of certain prickly shrubs belonging to the genus Ribes, of the saxifrage family, esp. R. uva crispa (or R. grossularia). 2. a shrub… … Universalium
gooseberry — UK [ˈɡʊzb(ə)rɪ] / US [ˈɡusˌberɪ] noun [countable] Word forms gooseberry : singular gooseberry plural gooseberries a small green fruit with a sour taste that grows on a bush and can be cooked to make sweet foods gooseberry pie/crumble/jam • be a… … English dictionary
gooseberry — goose|ber|ry [ˈguzbəri, ˈgu:z , ˈgu:s US ˈgu:sberi] n plural gooseberries [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: Perhaps from goose + berry] 1.) a small round green fruit that grows on a bush and has a sour taste 2.) be a gooseberry also play gooseberry BrE… … Dictionary of contemporary English
gooseberry lay — American a crime easily carried out A gooseberry was a washing line, from which clothes might be stolen as easily as taking berries off a bush, whence to gooseberry, to pilfer clothing, and then any similar theft … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms
gooseberry — [ˈgʊzb(ə)ri] noun [C] a small green fruit with a sour taste that grows on a bush • be a gooseberry; play gooseberry British informalto be with two people who have a sexual or romantic relationship and want to be alone together[/ex] … Dictionary for writing and speaking English
bush fruit — noun 1. : a small fruit growing on a woody bush (as the currant and gooseberry) 2. : a plant producing bush fruit compare cane fruit … Useful english dictionary
gooseberry — goose|ber|ry [ gus,beri ] noun count a small green fruit with a sour taste that grows on a bush and can be cooked to make sweet foods: gooseberry pie/jam … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
