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Definition of gooseberry in English: gooseberrynounPlural gooseberries ˈɡuːsb(ə)riˈɡʊzb(ə)riˈɡusˌbɛri 1A round edible yellowish-green or reddish berry with a thin translucent hairy skin. Example sentencesExamples - We produce plums, gooseberries - really wonderful soft fruit.
- The elderflower has a musky scent that really lifts the gooseberries - try adding it to gooseberry fool too.
- ‘Josta’ berry takes the looks of a gooseberry, removes the thorns, and makes it sweeter.
- Took this picture of the tiny gooseberries because they look so cute and hairy.
- Wild gooseberries and blackberries were also picked and enjoyed.
- Others, such as cooking apples, raspberries, blackcurrants, redcurrants and gooseberries, have more pectin and set without any help.
- I guess the name was changed as gooseberries are not a popular fruit these days, more's the pity.
- In Sweden you only work 40 hours a week and there isn't a lot to do, so we used to go picking blueberries, wild strawberries, blackberries and gooseberries in the forest near my house.
- In a few weeks the soft fruit which includes raspberries, redcurrants, gooseberries and blackcurrants will be available and the strawberries are already ripening and are ready to enjoy.
- And all I had in the store cupboard was a large can of ‘fruit salad’ and a smaller one of gooseberries.
- It is also a very busy month as strawberries, blackcurrants, raspberries, gooseberries are ripening.
- Apples, crab apples, gooseberries, and some plums and grapes usually contain enough natural pectin to form a gel.
- If you're going to freeze them (currants, gooseberries and raspberries freeze well, strawberries do not) do this directly on to a tray in a single layer.
- Outdoor-grown rhubarb is the only indigenous fruit till the gooseberries and very early strawberries show their faces next month.
- The business will not forget its pick-your-own roots as visitors will still be able to pick strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries, asparagus, broad beans, sweetcorn and pumpkins on the site.
- Blindfolded, I don't believe I could have told, but from inspection I think it contained apple, gooseberry and blackcurrant.
- First plums through the door will end up as crumble - there is no finer fruit for it save the gooseberry - and after that there will be pie.
- She always comes back with a bag of gooseberries or a couple of carrots.
- Before very recently, I had never eaten a gooseberry, or even seen one, as far as I know.
- This is still a low time for fruit lovers, but the first hard little gooseberries should be here by the very end of the month.
2The thorny European shrub which bears gooseberries. Ribes grossularia, family Grossulariaceae Example sentencesExamples - Since the early 1970s, George McLaren has been growing several varieties of strawberries and raspberries, redcurrants, blackcurrants, whitecurrants and gooseberries.
- Backing on to a small woodland, the rear garden has lawns and fruit trees, with the present owners also growing raspberries blackcurrants and gooseberries.
- Mildew in apples and gooseberries usually affects blossom and young shoots - cut off and destroy the affected shoots and blossom.
- As fruit develops on gooseberries and blackcurrants, erect temporary netting to protect it from the birds.
- We'll have the gooseberries, the raspberries, and some of the bush onions in this area we'll plant down here.
- Prune gooseberries and redcurrants if you haven't already done so.
- The soft fruit bed looks fantastic this year, with raspberries and strawberries both covered in flowers, the blackcurrants heavy with fruit and the gooseberries almost sawfly free.
- There were figs, walnuts, mulberries, apples, pears, damsons, gooseberries, elderberries, raspberries - and chickens, which we had inherited from the previous owners.
- They had gooseberries, blackcurrants, white currants and blackberries together with a really good stand of raspberry canes.
- ‘The Berry Garden,’ in another area, contains raspberries, boysenberries, huckleberries and gooseberries.
- Derrick, a father-of-three with four grandchildren, grows tomatoes, cucumbers, gooseberries, aubergines and even melons in his greenhouse.
- Since then we have cleared ground and are now the proud owners of two red currant bushes, a gooseberry - and thanks to the generosity of a kind-hearted neighbour - a row of Mediterranean garlic.
- To the rear of Old Hall is a large walled garden that has lawns and a variety of plants and shrubs, as well as strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries, rhubarb, plum and apple trees.
- Today, whether you are growing in the ground or in containers, you should choose plants that are easy to maintain and simple to grow such as rhubarb, gooseberries or strawberries.
- Now is a good time for pruning soft fruit bushes, such as whitecurrants, redcurrants, gooseberries, blackcurrants and briar fruits.
- Of the soft fruits, gooseberries and redcurrants can be left as a bush or grown as a standard.
- Take hardwood cuttings of soft-fruit bushes such as gooseberries and currants.
- As for specimen plants, how about a blackcurrant bush, a standard gooseberry or a miniature Coronet apple tree?
- Every time my gooseberry bush starts to bear fruit, it develops a fungus.
- Woody plants including gooseberries, raspberries and even roses may suffer from dieback after their leaves wilt and shrivel, changing to brown.
3British informal A third person in the company of two people, especially lovers, who would prefer to be alone. they didn't want me playing gooseberry on their first date Example sentencesExamples - I was playing gooseberry at Sunday lunch in Dunbrody House, Wexford.
- I stayed for the next two days, but seeing Beth and Steve together made me feel a bit of a gooseberry.
Origin Mid 16th century: the first element perhaps from goose, or perhaps based on Old French groseille, altered because of an unexplained association with the bird. Definition of gooseberry in US English: gooseberrynounˈɡo͞osˌberēˈɡusˌbɛri 1A round edible yellowish-green or reddish berry with a thin translucent hairy skin. Example sentencesExamples - And all I had in the store cupboard was a large can of ‘fruit salad’ and a smaller one of gooseberries.
- First plums through the door will end up as crumble - there is no finer fruit for it save the gooseberry - and after that there will be pie.
- In a few weeks the soft fruit which includes raspberries, redcurrants, gooseberries and blackcurrants will be available and the strawberries are already ripening and are ready to enjoy.
- This is still a low time for fruit lovers, but the first hard little gooseberries should be here by the very end of the month.
- Wild gooseberries and blackberries were also picked and enjoyed.
- Outdoor-grown rhubarb is the only indigenous fruit till the gooseberries and very early strawberries show their faces next month.
- Others, such as cooking apples, raspberries, blackcurrants, redcurrants and gooseberries, have more pectin and set without any help.
- Apples, crab apples, gooseberries, and some plums and grapes usually contain enough natural pectin to form a gel.
- The business will not forget its pick-your-own roots as visitors will still be able to pick strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries, asparagus, broad beans, sweetcorn and pumpkins on the site.
- If you're going to freeze them (currants, gooseberries and raspberries freeze well, strawberries do not) do this directly on to a tray in a single layer.
- Blindfolded, I don't believe I could have told, but from inspection I think it contained apple, gooseberry and blackcurrant.
- She always comes back with a bag of gooseberries or a couple of carrots.
- ‘Josta’ berry takes the looks of a gooseberry, removes the thorns, and makes it sweeter.
- I guess the name was changed as gooseberries are not a popular fruit these days, more's the pity.
- The elderflower has a musky scent that really lifts the gooseberries - try adding it to gooseberry fool too.
- It is also a very busy month as strawberries, blackcurrants, raspberries, gooseberries are ripening.
- Before very recently, I had never eaten a gooseberry, or even seen one, as far as I know.
- Took this picture of the tiny gooseberries because they look so cute and hairy.
- In Sweden you only work 40 hours a week and there isn't a lot to do, so we used to go picking blueberries, wild strawberries, blackberries and gooseberries in the forest near my house.
- We produce plums, gooseberries - really wonderful soft fruit.
2The thorny shrub that bears the gooseberry. Ribes grossularia, family Grossulariaceae Example sentencesExamples - We'll have the gooseberries, the raspberries, and some of the bush onions in this area we'll plant down here.
- They had gooseberries, blackcurrants, white currants and blackberries together with a really good stand of raspberry canes.
- Mildew in apples and gooseberries usually affects blossom and young shoots - cut off and destroy the affected shoots and blossom.
- Every time my gooseberry bush starts to bear fruit, it develops a fungus.
- Today, whether you are growing in the ground or in containers, you should choose plants that are easy to maintain and simple to grow such as rhubarb, gooseberries or strawberries.
- Take hardwood cuttings of soft-fruit bushes such as gooseberries and currants.
- There were figs, walnuts, mulberries, apples, pears, damsons, gooseberries, elderberries, raspberries - and chickens, which we had inherited from the previous owners.
- Now is a good time for pruning soft fruit bushes, such as whitecurrants, redcurrants, gooseberries, blackcurrants and briar fruits.
- Prune gooseberries and redcurrants if you haven't already done so.
- As for specimen plants, how about a blackcurrant bush, a standard gooseberry or a miniature Coronet apple tree?
- The soft fruit bed looks fantastic this year, with raspberries and strawberries both covered in flowers, the blackcurrants heavy with fruit and the gooseberries almost sawfly free.
- Since the early 1970s, George McLaren has been growing several varieties of strawberries and raspberries, redcurrants, blackcurrants, whitecurrants and gooseberries.
- Of the soft fruits, gooseberries and redcurrants can be left as a bush or grown as a standard.
- To the rear of Old Hall is a large walled garden that has lawns and a variety of plants and shrubs, as well as strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries, rhubarb, plum and apple trees.
- Backing on to a small woodland, the rear garden has lawns and fruit trees, with the present owners also growing raspberries blackcurrants and gooseberries.
- Woody plants including gooseberries, raspberries and even roses may suffer from dieback after their leaves wilt and shrivel, changing to brown.
- As fruit develops on gooseberries and blackcurrants, erect temporary netting to protect it from the birds.
- Derrick, a father-of-three with four grandchildren, grows tomatoes, cucumbers, gooseberries, aubergines and even melons in his greenhouse.
- Since then we have cleared ground and are now the proud owners of two red currant bushes, a gooseberry - and thanks to the generosity of a kind-hearted neighbour - a row of Mediterranean garlic.
- ‘The Berry Garden,’ in another area, contains raspberries, boysenberries, huckleberries and gooseberries.
Origin Mid 16th century: the first element perhaps from goose, or perhaps based on Old French groseille, altered because of an unexplained association with the bird. |