1 a round edible yellowish-green berry with a thin usu. translucent skin enclosing seeds in a juicy flesh.
2 the thorny shrub, Ribes grossularia, bearing this fruit.
Phrases and idioms:
play gooseberry Brit. colloq. be an unwanted extra (usu. third) person.
Etymology: perh. f. GOOSE + BERRY
Useful english dictionary. 2012.