1. A spiny european shrub (ribes uva-crispa) having lobed leaves, greenish flowers, and edible greenish to yellow or red berries.
2. the fruit of this plant.
3. any of several plants bearing similar fruit.

1. A fruit closely related to the currant.
2. any of several other unrelated fruits, such as the chinese gooseberry (kiwifruit) and the indian gooseberry (amla).
3. an additional person who is neither necessary nor wanted in a given situation.

1. 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.
2. A silly person; a goose cap.

1. the berry or fruit of a plant of the genus ribes, or the plant itself; in botany, a general term for the species of the genus ribes which belong to the section Grossularia, as the name currant is applied to those of the section Ribesia.
2. A silly person; a goosecap.
3. relating to or made of gooseberries: as, gooseberry wine.
4. the farkleberry, Batodendron arboreum: doubtless so called from its somewhat similar fruit. see farkleberry.
5. the Coromandel goosebery (which see).
6. one of several species of Polycodium. see squaw-huckleberry.

1. currant-like berry used primarily in jams and jellies
2. spiny eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries