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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 (Zoöl.), the larva of a small moth (Dakruma…

East Indian tree (Averrhoa Carambola), and its acid, juicy fruit; called also Coromandel gooseberry.

The west coast, or a portion of the west coast, of the Bay of Bengal. Coromandel gooseberry. See Carambola. -- Coromandel wood, Calamander wood.

A shrub or bush of several species of the genus Ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the Ribes rubrum. Black currant,a shrub or bush (Ribes nigrum and R. floridum) and its black, strong-flavored, tonic fruit. -- Cherry currant, a variety of the red currant, having a strong, symmetrical bush and a very…

A gooseberry. [Prov. Eng.] Prior.

A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; -- commonly called gooseberry fool.

Pertaining too, or resembling, a gooseberry; as, grossular garnet.

uice of any fruit or plant by a process similar to that for grape wine; as, currant wine; gooseberry wine; palm wine.