Found 2 items, similar to Ribes Grossularia.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: Ribes grossularia
Ribes grossularia
n : spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers
and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries [syn:
gooseberry,
gooseberry bush,
Ribes uva-crispa]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Ribes Grossularia
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.
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2. A silly person; a goose cap. --Goldsmith.
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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.
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Grossulin
\Gros"su*lin\, n. [See
Grossular.] (Chem.)
A vegetable jelly, resembling pectin, found in gooseberries
(
Ribes Grossularia) and other fruits.
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