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    gooseberry

    Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
    Related topics: Plants, Food, dish
    goose·ber·ry /ˈɡʊzbəri, ˈɡuːz-, ˈɡuːs- $ ˈɡuːsberi/ noun (plural gooseberries) [countable]  1. HBPDFFa small round green fruit that grows on a bush and has a sour taste 醋栗2. be a gooseberry  (also play gooseberry British English) informalWITH to be with two people who are having a romantic relationship and who want to be alone together 当电灯泡〔指夹在想单独相处的情侣中间〕
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    gooseberry• Strongly flavoured with apricot, gooseberry and peach fruit, there is also a gloss of caramel.• Other new season good fruit buys are gooseberries, redcurrants and blackcurrants.• Grandad was the gardener and planted a lot of fruit trees, including gooseberry, blackcurrant, plum and loganberry for the jam-making.• One hundred years later there were 722 varieties of gooseberries and 171 gooseberry shows at which to exhibit them.• Give a little extra nitrogen to blackcurrants and cooking apples; extra potash to gooseberries and red and white currants.• Can you identify vanilla, gooseberries or blackcurrants for example?    Origin gooseberry (1500-1600) Perhaps from goose + berry
    goose·ber·ry nounChineseSyllable
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    gooseberry
    goose‧ber‧ry /ˈɡʊzbəri, ˈɡuːz-, ˈɡuːs- $ ˈɡuːsberi/ noun (plural gooseberries) [countable]
     Date: 1500-1600
     Origin: Perhaps from goose + berry
    1. a small round green fruit that grows on a bush and has a sour taste
    2. be a gooseberry (also play gooseberry British English) informal to be with two people who are having a romantic relationship and who want to be alone together


    goose·berryBrE /ˈɡʊzbəri/ 🔊NAmE /ˈɡuːsberi/ 🔊 noun (
    plural
    goose·berries    )
    a small green fruit that grows on a bush with thorns. Gooseberries taste sour and are usually cooked to make jam, pies, etc. Children are sometimes told that babies come from 'under the gooseberry bush '. 醋栗◆a gooseberry bush醋栗灌木    ●play ˈgooseberry(BrE) to be a third person with two people who have a romantic relationship and want to be alone together 当电灯泡（夹在情侣之间，不知趣）