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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries;
[syn: gooseberry, gooseberry bush, Ribes uva-crispa, Ribes grossularia]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Gooseberry \Goose"ber*ry\, n.; pl. Gooseberries, [Corrupted for groseberry or groiseberry, fr. OF. groisele, F. groseille, -- of German origin; cf. G. krausbeere, kr[aum]uselbeere (fr. kraus crisp), D. kruisbes, kruisbezie (as if crossberry, fr. kruis cross; for kroesbes, kroesbezie, fr. kroes crisp), Sw. krusb[aum]r (fr. krus, krusing, crisp). The first part of the word is perh. akin to E. curl. Cf. Grossular, a.] 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. [1913 Webster] 2. A silly person; a goose cap. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster] 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 1st Fool. Gooseberry worm (Zool.), the larva of a small moth (Dakruma convolutella). It destroys the gooseberry by eating the interior. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Grossulin \Gros"su*lin\, n. [See Grossular.] (Chem.) A vegetable jelly, resembling pectin, found in gooseberries (Ribes Grossularia) and other fruits. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Ribes grossularia n 1: spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries [syn: gooseberry, gooseberry bush, Ribes uva-crispa, Ribes grossularia]