barbados gooseberry

Questions about barbados gooseberry

What does barbados gooseberry mean?

barbados gooseberry means "West Indian woody climber with spiny stems and numerous fragrant white flowers in panicles followed by small yellow to orange fruits". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for barbados gooseberry?

Close synonyms include Barbados-gooseberry vine, Pereskia aculeata, blade apple. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is barbados gooseberry a common word?

barbados gooseberry is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.