Ribes grossularia : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Ribes grossularia	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Ribes grossularia
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Ribes grossularia n spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries Synonym(s): gooseberry, gooseberry bush, Ribes uva-crispa, Ribes grossularia
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Grossulin \Gros"su*lin\, n. [See {Grossular}.] (Chem.) A vegetable jelly, resembling pectin, found in gooseberries ({Ribes Grossularia}) and other fruits.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gooseberry \Goose"ber*ry\, n.; pl. {Gooseberries}, [Corrupted for groseberry or groiseberry, fr. OF. groisele, F. groseille, -- of German origin; cf. G. krausbeere, kr[84]uselbeere (fr. kraus crisp), D. kruisbes, kruisbezie (as if crossberry, fr. kruis cross; for kroesbes, kroesbezie, fr. kroes crisp), Sw. krusb[84]r (fr. krus, krusing, crisp). The first part of the word is perh. akin to E. curl. Cf. {Grossular}, a.] 1. (Bot.) Any thorny shrub of the genus {Ribes}; also, the edible berries of such shrub. There are several species, of which {Ribes Grossularia} is the one commonly cultivated. 2. A silly person; a goose cap. --Goldsmith. {Barbadoes gooseberry}, a climbing prickly shrub ({Pereskia aculeata}) of the West Indies, which bears edible berries resembling gooseberries. {Coromandel gooseberry}. See {Carambola}. {Gooseberry fool}. See lst {Fool}. {Gooseberry worm} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of a small moth ({Dakruma convolutella}). It destroys the gooseberry by eating the interior.