gooseberry
- noun
- B2
- less common
A small round berry, usually green, with thin see-through skin and a very sour taste, often cooked with sugar.
We picked gooseberries all morning and made three jars of jam.
These gooseberries are still too sour to eat straight from the bush.
She added plenty of sugar to the gooseberry pie filling.
Common collocations: gooseberry bush · gooseberry jam · gooseberry pie · pick gooseberries · sour gooseberries
Part of: Fruit, The garden, Plants
Forms
- plural
- gooseberries