gooseberry bush

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   spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries

   SynonymsgooseberryRibes uva-crispaRibes grossularia

   Broadershrub

   Part ofRibes

   Partsgooseberry

Questions about gooseberry bush

What does gooseberry bush mean?

gooseberry bush means "spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries".

What is another word for gooseberry bush?

Close synonyms include gooseberry, Ribes uva-crispa, Ribes grossularia. 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 gooseberry bush a common word?

gooseberry bush 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.