ribes uva-crispa

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

   Synonymsgooseberrygooseberry bushRibes grossularia

   Broadershrub

   Part ofRibes

   Partsgooseberry

Questions about ribes uva-crispa

What does ribes uva-crispa mean?

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

What is another word for ribes uva-crispa?

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

ribes uva-crispa 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.