Usually means: Tart, small fruit; ribbed skin.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. gooseberry: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. gooseberry: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gooseberry: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gooseberry: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gooseberry: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gooseberry, gooseberry: Wordnik
  7. gooseberry: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gooseberry: Wiktionary
  9. gooseberry: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gooseberry: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gooseberry: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gooseberry, gooseberry: Dictionary.com
  13. gooseberry: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Gooseberry (disambiguation), Gooseberry: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Gooseberry: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. gooseberry: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. gooseberry: Rhymezone
  18. gooseberry: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. gooseberry: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Gooseberry: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. gooseberry: Free Dictionary
  22. gooseberry: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. gooseberry: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gooseberry: Linda's Culinary Dictionary
  2. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gooseberry: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Gooseberry: Glossary of Herbs, Botanicals and Other Products

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gooseberry: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gooseberry, gooseberry: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. gooseberry: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A fruit of species Ribes uva-crispa, related to the currant.
noun:  Any other plant or fruit in the subgenus Grossularia, distinguished from currants by bearing spines, including Ribes hirtellum (American gooseberry).
noun:  Any of several other plants that are not closely related but bear fruit in some way similar:
noun:  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
noun:  Indian gooseberry (Phyllanthus emblica), emblic, amla.
noun:  Ceylon gooseberry, a species of Dovyalis native to Sri Lanka and southern India
noun:  Barbados gooseberry (Pereskia aculeata), an unusual cactus
noun:  Long Key locustberry or shiny locustberry (Byrsonima lucida)
noun:  Jamaican gooseberry tree (Phyllanthus acuminatus), a herb-like plant
noun:  star gooseberry
noun:  Otaheite gooseberry (Phyllanthus acidus)
noun:  Katuk (Sauropus androgynus), a shrub grown in some tropical regions as a leaf vegetable
noun:  Physalis angulata, also called balloon cherry and cutleaf groundcherry
noun:  Cape gooseberry (Physalis peruviana), indigenous to South America
noun:  poison gooseberry (Withania somnifera)
noun:  (dated, British slang) A chaperone.
noun:  (chiefly British) An additional person who is neither necessary nor wanted in a given situation.
noun:  (dated, British slang) A fool.
noun:  (dated, British slang) A fantastic story; a tall tale; a hoax.
noun:  (dated, British slang, vulgar, usually in the plural) A testicle.

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