gooseberry : Idioms & Phrases
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Barbadoes gooseberry
- a climbing prickly shrub (
Pereskia aculeata ) of the West Indies, which bears edible berries resembling gooseberries.
Webster 1913
barbados gooseberry
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noun West Indian woody climber with spiny stems and numerous fragrant white flowers in panicles followed by small yellow to orange fruits
Pereskia aculeata; Barbados gooseberry.
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noun small yellow to orange fruit of the Barbados gooseberry cactus used in desserts and preserves and jellies
blade apple.
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barbados-gooseberry vine
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noun West Indian woody climber with spiny stems and numerous fragrant white flowers in panicles followed by small yellow to orange fruits
Pereskia aculeata; Barbados gooseberry.
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cape gooseberry
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noun annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits
purple ground cherry; Physalis peruviana.
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ceylon gooseberry
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noun a small shrubby spiny tree cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasting like gooseberries; Sri Lanka and India
kitambilla; Dovyalis hebecarpa; ketembilla tree; kitembilla; ketembilla.
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chinese gooseberry
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noun climbing vine native to China; cultivated in New Zealand for its fuzzy edible fruit with green meat
kiwi; Actinidia deliciosa; kiwi vine; Actinidia chinensis.
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noun fuzzy brown egg-shaped fruit with slightly tart green flesh
kiwi; kiwi fruit.
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Coromandel gooseberry
- . See
Carambola .
Webster 1913
dwarf cape gooseberry
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noun stout hairy annual of eastern North America with sweet yellow fruits
strawberry tomato; Physalis pruinosa.
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gooseberry bush
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noun spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries
Ribes grossularia; gooseberry; Ribes uva-crispa.
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gooseberry family
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noun in some classifications considered a part of the family Saxifragaceae: plants whose fruit is a berry
Grossulariaceae; family Grossulariaceae.
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Gooseberry fool
- . See lst
Fool .
Webster 1913
Gooseberry worm
(Zoöl.) , the larva of a small moth (Dakruma convolutella ). It destroys the gooseberry by eating the interior.
Webster 1913
sea gooseberry
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noun ctenophore having a rounded body with longitudinal rows of cilia
