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Raregooseberries
The correct spelling is gooseberries.
How to pronounce gooseberries
noun
Say it like: Goo-seb-err-ees
The correct spelling is gooseberries. A fruit, Ribes uva-crispa, related to the currant. For example: "We had a good haul of gooseberries from our bushes this year."
Usage Examples
“We had a good haul of gooseberries from our bushes this year.”
“Robert and Susan were so in love with each other that nobody could go near them without feeling like a gooseberry.”
Definition
noun
- 1.A fruit, Ribes uva-crispa, related to the currant.
- 2.Any other plant or fruit in the subgenus Grossularia, distinguished from currants by bearing spines, including Ribes hirtellum, the American gooseberry.
- 3.Any of several other plants that are not closely related but bear fruit in some way similar:
- 4.(British slang) A chaperone.
- 5.An additional person who is neither necessary nor wanted in a given situation.
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