gooseberry

noun20

1. •
   A fruit of species Ribes uva-crispa, related to the currant.

   • We had a good haul of gooseberries from our bushes this year.
2. •
   Any other plant or fruit in the subgenus Grossularia, distinguished from currants by bearing spines, including Ribes hirtellum (American gooseberry).
3. •
   (UK) 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.
4. •
   (slang, old-fashioned) A chaperone.
5. •
   Any of several other plants that are not closely related but bear fruit in some way similar.
6. •
   Chinese gooseberry or kiwifruit, the edible berry of a cultivar group of the woody vine Actinidia chinensis var. deliciosa and hybrids between this and others in the genus Actinidia
7. •
   Indian gooseberry (Phyllanthus emblica), emblic, amla.
8. •
   Ceylon gooseberry, a species of Dovyalis native to Sri Lanka and southern India
9. •
   Barbados gooseberry (Pereskia aculeata), an unusual cactus
10. •
    Long Key locustberry or shiny locustberry (Byrsonima lucida)
11. •
    Jamaican gooseberry tree (Phyllanthus acuminatus), a herb-like plant
12. •
    star gooseberry
13. •
    Otaheite gooseberry (Phyllanthus acidus)
14. •
    Katuk (Sauropus androgynus), a shrub grown in some tropical regions as a leaf vegetable
15. •
    Physalis angulata, also called balloon cherry and cutleaf groundcherry
16. •
    Cape gooseberry (Physalis peruviana), indigenous to South America
17. •
    poison gooseberry (Withania somnifera)
18. •
    [usually plural] (slang, vulgar) A testicle.
19. •
    (slang, old-fashioned) A fool.
20. •
    (slang, old-fashioned) A fantastic story; a tall tale; a hoax.