Crossword clues for gooseberry
gooseberry
- Spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries
- Currant-like berry used primarily in jams and jellies
- Fruit for a fool?
- Prickly shrub or its fruit
- Kind of tart whose company’s not wanted
- Nothing stops terribly grey, sober singleton spoiling a date
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gooseberry \Goose"ber*ry\, n.; pl. Gooseberries, [Corrupted for groseberry or groiseberry, fr. OF. groisele, F. groseille, -- of German origin; cf. G. krausbeere, kr["a]uselbeere (fr. kraus crisp), D. kruisbes, kruisbezie (as if crossberry, fr. kruis cross; for kroesbes, kroesbezie, fr. kroes crisp), Sw. krusb["a]r (fr. krus, krusing, crisp). The first part of the word is perh. akin to E. curl. Cf. Grossular, a.]
(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.
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A silly person; a goose cap.
--Goldsmith.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 (Zo["o]l.), the larva of a small moth ( Dakruma convolutella). It destroys the gooseberry by eating the interior.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, perhaps from German Krausebeere or Kräuselbeere, related to Middle Dutch croesel "gooseberry," and to German kraus "crispy, curly" [Klein, etc.]. Under this theory, gooseberry would be folk etymology. But OED editors find no reason to prefer this to a literal reading, because "the grounds on which plants and fruits have received names associating them with animals are so commonly inexplicable, that the want of appropriateness in the meaning affords no sufficient ground for assuming that the word is an etymological corruption."
Wiktionary
n. 1 A fruit, ''Ribes uva-crispa'', closely related to the currant. 2 ''Ribes hirtellum'', the closely related (vern: American gooseberry). 3 Any of several other not closely related plants, that bear fruit in some way similar: 4 # the Chinese gooseberry or kiwifruit, the edible berry of a cultivar group of the woody vine ''Actinidia deliciosa'' and hybrids between this and other species in the genus ''Actinidia'' 5 # the (vern: Indian gooseberry), (taxlink Phyllanthus emblica species noshow=1), emblic, amla. 6 # the (vern: Ceylon gooseberry), a species of (taxlink Dovyalis genus noshow=1) native to Sri Lanka and southern India 7 # the (vern: Barbados gooseberry), (taxlink Pereskia aculeata species noshow=1), an unusual cactus 8 # The (vern: Long Key locustberry) or (vern: shiny locustberry), (taxlink Byrsonima lucida species noshow=1) 9 # (vern: Jamaican gooseberry tree), (taxlink Phyllanthus acuminatus species noshow=1), a herb-like plant 10 # (vern: star gooseberry) 11 ## (vern: Otaheite gooseberry), (taxlink Phyllanthus acidus species noshow=1) 12 ## (vern katuk Katuk), (taxlink Sauropus androgynus species noshow=1), a shrub grown in some tropical regions as a leaf vegetable 13 # (taxlink Physalis angulata species noshow=1), also called (vern: balloon cherry) and (vern: cutleaf groundcherry) 14 # (vern: Cape gooseberry), (taxlink Physalis peruviana species noshow=1), indigenous to South America 15 # (vern: poison gooseberry), (taxlink Withania somnifera species noshow=1) 16 (context chiefly British English) An additional person who is neither necessary nor wanted in a given situation.
WordNet
n. spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries [syn: gooseberry bush, Ribes uva-crispa, Ribes grossularia]
currant-like berry used primarily in jams and jellies
Wikipedia
Gooseberry most often refers to a cultivated plant from two species of the genus Ribes:
- Ribes uva-crispa native to Europe, northwestern Africa and southwestern Asia.
- Ribes hirtellum, American gooseberry
- Hybrids between Ribes hirtellum and Ribes uva-crispa, including most of the cultivated gooseberry cultivars
For other plants see List of plants known as gooseberry
The Gooseberry gene, a pair-rule gene, plays an important role in providing genetic information involved with the hedgehog signaling pathway in Drosophila. Thereby, relating to the signaling in wingless development.
The gooseberry ( or (American and northern British) or (southern British)), with scientific names Ribes uva-crispa (and syn. Ribes grossularia), is a species of Ribes (which also includes the currants).
It is native to Europe, northwestern Africa, west, south and southeast Asia. Gooseberry bushes produce an edible fruit and are grown on both a commercial and domestic basis. The species is also sparingly naturalized in scattered locations in North America.
Although usually placed as a subgenus within Ribes, a few taxonomists treat Grossularia as a separate genus, although hybrids between gooseberry and blackcurrant (e.g., the jostaberry) are possible. The subgenus Grossularia differs somewhat from currants, chiefly in their spiny stems, and in that their flowers grow one to three together on short stems, not in racemes. It is one of several similar species in the subgenus Grossularia; for the other related species (e.g., North American Gooseberry Ribes hirtellum), see the genus page Ribes.
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Usage examples of "gooseberry".
At this altitude of 6,000 feet one must learn to be content with varieties of Coniferae, for, except for aspens, which spring up in some places where the pines have been cleared away, and for cotton-woods, which at a lower level fringe the streams, there is nothing but the bear cherry, the raspberry, the gooseberry, the wild grape, and the wild currant.
Farmer Flamborough, our talkative neighbor, and often a blind piper, would pay us a visit and taste our gooseberry wine, for the making of which we had lost neither the recipe nor the reputation.
They were beautiful pies-rhubarb, wild Juneberry, apple, and gooseberry, all fruits preserved by Grandma Kashpaw or my mother or Aurelia.
Indian chutney, cottage cheese, gooseberry jam, gingerbread, a cheese slipover consisting of a deep-dish apple pie with a Welsh rabbit melted over it, lobster stuffed and baked, broccoli Parmesan, crisp endive with Roquefort dressing, baked Alaska, coffee with grated orange peel and a clove, a Bacardi swizzle and a bottle of Fiora del Alpina, with a cashew nut to nibble and any other expensive or out of season comestibles obtainable or not.
March explained in her thick Scottish burr that the secret of a good fool was in finding the sharpest, tartest gooseberries.
Stossen and her daughter, suitably arrayed for a county garden party function with an infusion of Almanack de Gotha, sailed through the narrow grass paddock and the ensuing gooseberry garden with the air of state barges making an unofficial progress along a rural trout stream.
CHAPTER SEVEN cameron lived on a narrow gravel road going nowhere but Gooseberry Beach.
Virtue is of so little regard in thesecostermonger times that true valour is turnedbear-herd: pregnancy is made a tapster, and hathhis quick wit wasted in giving reckonings: all theother gifts appertinent to man, as the malice ofthis age shapes them, are not worth a gooseberry.
So, too, are the red and black gooseberries, service-berry, choke-cherry, and the black, yellow, red, and purple currants, which last seems to be a favorite food of the bear.
The great majority of the species are minute and come under the definition of microscopic Fungi, and many of these are parasitic, and in many instances prove very destructive to cultivated plants: among such are the species causing Apple Scab, Potato Disease, American Gooseberry Mildew.
Ma Lomas made wine from elderflowers, elderberries, nettles, dandelions, birch sap, rhubarb, gooseberries and whinberries.
Then that night, standing in with a fine topgallant sail breeze, we raised Cape Gooseberry and bore away for the signal-station: we landed a couple of miles from it and proceeded across the dunes to take it from behind, for just as I suspected its two twelve-pounders were so placed that they could only fire out to sea or at the most sweep 75 of the shore, if traversed.
His breakfast consisted of a side-dish, a broiled fish with Reading sauce, a scarlet slice of roast beef garnished with mushrooms, a rhubarb and gooseberry tart, and a morsel of Cheshire cheese, the whole being washed down with several cups of tea, for which the Reform is famous.
On the way back they had all enjoyed various fruits they had acquired: bananas, oranges, passion fruit, cape gooseberries with their lanternlike husks, custard apples and guavas, avocados, coconuts, papayas, and pineapples.
On the way back they had all enjoyed various fruits they had acquired: bananas, oranges, passion fruit, cape gooseberries with their lanternlike husks, custard apples and guavas, avocados, coconuts, papayas and pineapples.