a small round edible green or yellow fruit with soft prickly skin and acid flesh
a small round edible green or yellow fruit with soft usu prickly skin and acid flesh
the thorny shrub that bears this fruit: Ribes grossularia
an unwanted companion to two lovers
play gooseberry
[goose perhaps from goose1, or perhaps an alteration of Old French groseille redcurrant; the connection with the bird is unexplained]