Gooseberry /(?)/

Goose·ber·ry

Gooseberry

n.
  1. 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. (Bot.)
  2. A silly person; a goose cap.

Phrases & Compounds
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
the larva of a small moth (Dakruma convolutella). It destroys the gooseberry by eating the interior.