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Definition of gooseberry bush in English: gooseberry bushnoun 1A thorny shrub that bears gooseberries. a gooseberry bush will grow to a height of five feet Example sentencesExamples - Rows of gooseberry bushes now yield fruit for pies and jams.
- Gooseberry bushes grow wild in most of the northern temperate zone, flourishing in cool, moist, or high regions.
- Gooseberry bushes need pruning in July, and what you are aiming for is easy access for the fruit and good airflow through the branches.
- He feeds his gooseberry bushes with a secret nutrient recipe and monitors their progress round-the-clock.
- Propagate new gooseberry bushes by taking hardwood cuttings from healthy plants before their leaves drop
- Every time my gooseberry bush starts to bear fruit, it develops a fungus.
- Autumn into winter is an excellent time for planting gooseberry bushes.
- Up on the Yorkshire Moors, villagers are nursing their precious gooseberry bushes ahead of their annual gooseberry show on 7 August.
- I would be grateful if you could tell me the best time to prune a gooseberry bush.
- The orchard already boasts 50 different varieties of apple trees, and next month strawberry and gooseberry bushes are to be planted.
- 1.1British Used, especially in answer to a child's question, to refer to the place where newborn babies are found.
according to my parents I was found under a gooseberry bush Example sentencesExamples - There are no storks or gooseberry bushes but a cast of midwives, grave robbers, priests, and scientists in a tale of birth, sex and death that is guaranteed to intrigue.
- When I was a little girl, children were led to believe that babies were found under the gooseberry bush.
- Surely everyone knows you need a gooseberry bush in the garden, because that's where you find babies.
- I am in no fit state to discuss anything more clinically realistic than babies dropping out of the sky and landing on marshmallow blankets under a gooseberry bush.
- She didn't arrive from under a gooseberry bush.
- If your child wants to know how babies are made, tell him "in Mommy's tummy," and not "found under a gooseberry bush."
- Do you mean how did you begin inside your mum's womb (echoes of our conversation about the stork and the gooseberry bush) or why did your mum decide to have a baby?
- Wexford laughed. "A gooseberry bush is what you find babies under."
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