English Dictionary

gooseberry

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈɡusˌbɛɹi/

名詞

イギリス英語 古風 俗語 イギリス英語 通例複数形 卑語

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

日本語の意味

グーズベリー：Ribes uva‐crispaに属する果実で、カラントに近い性質を持つ果実。

I made a tart using fresh gooseberry from the garden.

庭の新鮮なグーズベリーを使ってタルトを作りました。

意味（1）

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

We had a good haul of gooseberries from our bushes this year.

意味（2）

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

意味（3）

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

意味（4）

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

意味（5）

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

意味（6）

the Barbados gooseberry (Pereskia aculeata), an unusual cactus

意味（7）

The Long Key locustberry or shiny locustberry (Byrsonima lucida)

意味（8）

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

意味（9）

star gooseberry

意味（10）

Physalis angulata, also called balloon cherry and cutleaf groundcherry

意味（11）

Cape gooseberry (Physalis peruviana), indigenous to South America

意味（12）

poison gooseberry (Withania somnifera)

意味（13）

(dated, British slang) A chaperone.

意味（14）

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

Robert and Susan were so in love with each other that nobody could go near them without feeling like a gooseberry.

意味（15）

(dated, British slang) A fool.

意味（16）

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

意味（17）

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

gooseberries （ plural ）