ribes grossularia

Questions about ribes grossularia

What does ribes grossularia mean?

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

What is another word for ribes grossularia?

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

ribes grossularia 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.