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elderberry
English
Etymology
elder +? berry
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??ld?(?)?b??i/
Noun
elderberry (plural elderberries)
- The elder; a shrub or tree of the genus Sambucus.
- The small, edible, purplish-black fruit of this plant, used in cooking and to flavour drinks etc.
Translations
See also
- sambuca
Further reading
- sambucus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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gooseberry
English
Etymology
From goose +? berry. It is possible that the first element was originally something related to the gros- of French groseille and/or the kruis- of Dutch kruisbes but has been altered by folk etymology.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /??us?b??i/
- (UK) IPA(key): /???zb(?)?i/, /??u?sb(?)?i/
Noun
gooseberry (plural gooseberries)
- A fruit, Ribes uva-crispa, related to the currant.
- We had a good haul of gooseberries from our bushes this year.
- Any other plant or fruit in the subgenus Grossularia, distinguished from currants by bearing spines, including Ribes hirtellum, the American gooseberry.
- Any of several other plants that are not closely related but bear fruit in some way similar:
- the Chinese gooseberry or kiwifruit, the edible berry of a cultivar group of the woody vine Actinidia deliciosa and hybrids between this and other species in the genus Actinidia
- the Indian gooseberry (Phyllanthus emblica), emblic, amla.
- the Ceylon gooseberry, a species of Dovyalis native to Sri Lanka and southern India
- the Barbados gooseberry (Pereskia aculeata), an unusual cactus
- The Long Key locustberry or shiny locustberry (Byrsonima lucida)
- Jamaican gooseberry tree (Phyllanthus acuminatus), a herb-like plant
- star gooseberry
- Otaheite gooseberry (Phyllanthus acidus)
- Katuk (Sauropus androgynus), a shrub grown in some tropical regions as a leaf vegetable
- Physalis angulata, also called balloon cherry and cutleaf groundcherry
- Cape gooseberry (Physalis peruviana), indigenous to South America
- poison gooseberry (Withania somnifera)
- (dated, British slang) A chaperone.
- (chiefly Britain) An additional person who is neither necessary nor wanted in a given situation.
- (dated, British slang) A fool.
- (dated, British slang) A fantastic story; a tall tale; a hoax.
- (dated, British slang, vulgar, usually in the plural) A testicle.
Synonyms
- (fruit): goosegog (UK informal)
- (additional person): third wheel, fifth wheel
- (fool): see Thesaurus:fool
- (testicle): see Thesaurus:testicles
Derived terms
Translations
References
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