gooseberry

A fruit, Ribes uva-crispa, related to the currant.

Any other plant or fruit in the subgenus Grossularia, distinguished from currants by bearing spines, including Ribes hirtellum, the American gooseberry.

the Chinese gooseberry or kiwifruit, the edible berry of a cultivar group of the woody vine Actinidia deliciosa and hybrids between this and other species in the genus Actinidia

the Indian gooseberry (Phyllanthus emblica), emblic, amla.

the Ceylon gooseberry, a species of Dovyalis native to Sri Lanka and southern India

the Barbados gooseberry (Pereskia aculeata), an unusual cactus

The Long Key locustberry or shiny locustberry (Byrsonima lucida)

Jamaican gooseberry tree (Phyllanthus acuminatus), a herb-like plant

star gooseberry

Physalis angulata, also called balloon cherry and cutleaf groundcherry

Cape gooseberry (Physalis peruviana), indigenous to South America

poison gooseberry (Withania somnifera)

(dated, British slang) A chaperone.

(chiefly Britain) An additional person who is neither necessary nor wanted in a given situation.

(dated, British slang) A fool.

(dated, British slang) A fantastic story; a tall tale; a hoax.

(dated, British slang, vulgar, usually in the plural) A testicle.