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Definition of Gooseberry
1. Noun. Spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries.
Group relationships: Genus Ribes, Ribes
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
2. Noun. Currant-like berry used primarily in jams and jellies.
Definition of Gooseberry
1. 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.
Definition of Gooseberry
1. Noun. A fruit closely related to the currant. ¹
2. Noun. Any of several other unrelated fruits, such as the Chinese gooseberry (kiwifruit) and the Indian gooseberry (amla). ¹
3. Noun. (chiefly British) an additional person that is neither necessary nor wanted in a given situation ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gooseberry
1. [n -RIES]
Medical Definition of Gooseberry
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Gooseberry
Literary usage of Gooseberry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Geographical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies by Antonio de Alcedo, George Alexander Thompson (1812)
"gooseberry is viewed from the beacon over the point of land running out from it.
The E. gooseberry bears s. 26 a>. and it is shoal as far as the w. breaker. ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Downing gooseberry. packed in boxes of earth, which are stored in a cold cellar.
... The gooseberry, as a rule, is affected seriously by only two plant ..."
3. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"If standards arc desired, the gooseberry may be with advantage grafted or budded
on stocks of some other species of Л'. '>' •. ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"(AN) The wild gooseberry is a small, straggling bush, nearly resembling the
cultivated plant—the branches being thickly set with sharp spines, standing out ..."
5. The American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"The cultivation of the gooseberry in gardens was first successfully undertaken by
... The gooseberry is represented in the United States by several species, ..."
6. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"If standards are desired, the gooseberry may be with advantage grafted or budded
on stocks of some other species of A':/>< .v, Л'. aureum, the ornamental ..."
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