gooseberry

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A fruit of species Ribes uva-crispa, related to the currant.

   “We had a good haul of gooseberries from our bushes this year.”

2. isim Any other plant or fruit in the subgenus Grossularia, distinguished from currants by bearing spines, including Ribes hirtellum (American gooseberry).
3. isim 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
4. isim Indian gooseberry (Phyllanthus emblica), emblic, amla.
5. isim Ceylon gooseberry, a species of Dovyalis native to Sri Lanka and southern India
6. isim Barbados gooseberry (Pereskia aculeata), an unusual cactus
7. isim Long Key locustberry or shiny locustberry (Byrsonima lucida)
8. isim Jamaican gooseberry tree (Phyllanthus acuminatus), a herb-like plant
9. isim Otaheite gooseberry (Phyllanthus acidus)
10. isim Katuk (Sauropus androgynus), a shrub grown in some tropical regions as a leaf vegetable
11. isim Physalis angulata, also called balloon cherry and cutleaf groundcherry
12. isim Cape gooseberry (Physalis peruviana), indigenous to South America
13. isim poison gooseberry (Withania somnifera)
14. isim A chaperone.
15. isim An additional person who is neither necessary nor wanted in a given situation.

    “Robert and Susan were so in love with each other that nobody could go near them without feeling like a gooseberry.”

16. isim A fool.
17. isim A fantastic story; a tall tale; a hoax.
18. isim A testicle.