Currant vs. Gooseberry

Currantnoun

A small dried grape, usually the Black Corinth grape, rarely more than 4mm diameter when dried.

Gooseberrynoun

A fruit, Ribes uva-crispa, related to the currant.

‘We had a good haul of gooseberries from our bushes this year.’;

Currantnoun

The fruit of various shrubs of the genus Ribes, white, black or red.

Gooseberrynoun

Any other plant or fruit in the subgenus Grossularia, distinguished from currants by bearing spines, including Ribes hirtellum, the American gooseberry.

Currantnoun

A shrub bearing such fruit.

Gooseberrynoun

Any of several other plants that are not closely related but bear fruit in some way similar:

Currantnoun

A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; - used in cookery.

Gooseberrynoun

the Chinese gooseberry or kiwifruit, the edible berry of a cultivar group of the woody vine Actinidia deliciosa and hybrids between this and other species in the genus Actinidia

Currantnoun

The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant.

Gooseberrynoun

the Indian gooseberry (Phyllanthus emblica), emblic, amla.

Currantnoun

A shrub or bush of several species of the genus Ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the Ribes rubrum.

Gooseberrynoun

the Ceylon gooseberry, a species of Dovyalis native to Sri Lanka and southern India

Currantnoun

any of several tart red or black berries used primarily for jellies and jams

Gooseberrynoun

the Barbados gooseberry (Pereskia aculeata), an unusual cactus

Currantnoun

any of various deciduous shrubs of the genus Ribes bearing currants

Gooseberrynoun

The Long Key locustberry or shiny locustberry (Byrsonima lucida)

Currantnoun

small dried seedless raisin grown in the Mediterranean region and California; used in cooking

Gooseberrynoun

(Phyllanthus acuminatus), a herb-like plant

Currantnoun

a small dried fruit made from a small seedless variety of grape originally grown in the eastern Mediterranean region and much used in cooking

‘a currant bun’;

Gooseberrynoun

Physalis angulata, also called balloon cherry and cutleaf groundcherry

Currantnoun

a Eurasian shrub which produces small edible black, red, or white berries.

Gooseberrynoun

Cape gooseberry (Physalis peruviana), indigenous to South America

Currantnoun

a berry from a currant shrub.

Gooseberrynoun

(Withania somnifera)

Gooseberrynoun

A chaperone.

Gooseberrynoun

An additional person who is neither necessary nor wanted in a given situation.

‘Robert and Susan were so in love with each other that nobody could go near them without feeling like a gooseberry.’;

Gooseberrynoun

A fool.

Gooseberrynoun

A fantastic story; a tall tale; a hoax.

Gooseberrynoun

A testicle.

Gooseberrynoun

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.

Gooseberrynoun

A silly person; a goose cap.

Gooseberrynoun

spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries

Gooseberrynoun

currant-like berry used primarily in jams and jellies

Gooseberry

Gooseberry ( or (American and northern British) or (southern British)), is a common name for many species of Ribes (which also includes currants), as well as a large number of plants of similar appearance. The berries of those in the genus Ribes (sometimes placed in the genus Grossularia) are edible and may be green, red, purple, yellow, white, or black.