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gooseberry
['gu:sbәri]
n. 醋栗, 醋栗酒
  1. It's gooseberry jam.
    醋栗酱。
  2. I don't wish to play gooseberry.
    识趣
  3. On, you two go by yourselves! You don't want me coming along playing gooseberry.
    俩还单独去硬夹




gooseberry
[ noun ]
  1. spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries

  2. <noun.plant>
  3. currant-like berry used primarily in jams and jellies

  4. <noun.food>




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.]
1. (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.

2. 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.