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▸ 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.
Similar:
gooseberry bush,
ribes grossularia,
Ribes uva-crispa,
golden currant,
wax currant,
currant,
Missouri currant,
sticky currant,
blackcurrant,
crowberry,
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