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• gooseberry — ► NOUN (pl. gooseberries) 1) a round edible yellowish green berry with a hairy skin, growing on a thorny shrub. 2) Brit. informal a third person in the company of two lovers, who would prefer to be alone. ORIGIN the first element perhaps from… …   English terms 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 — [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

• 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

• 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

• gooseberry — [[t]g ʊzbəri, AM gu͟ːsberi[/t]] gooseberries N COUNT A gooseberry is a small green fruit that has a sharp taste and is covered with tiny hairs …   English dictionary

• gooseberry — noun (C) 1 a small round green fruit with a sour taste that grows on a bush 2 play gooseberry BrE informal to be the unwanted third person who is with two people who are having a romantic relationship and want to be alone together …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• gooseberry — n. (pl. ies) 1 a round edible yellowish green berry with a thin usu. translucent skin enclosing seeds in a juicy flesh. 2 the thorny shrub, Ribes grossularia, bearing this fruit. Phrases and idioms: play gooseberry Brit. colloq. be an unwanted… …   Useful english dictionary