how to pronounce gooseberry

/ˈɡʊz.bəɹ.i/

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gooseberry is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of gooseberry in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… reduce gooseberry will be lifted …”

meanings of gooseberry

noun:

A fool.
Any of several other plants that are not closely related but bear fruit in some way similar:.
The Ceylon gooseberry, a species of Dovyalis native to Sri Lanka and southern India.
Cape gooseberry (Physalis peruviana), indigenous to South America.
Any other plant or fruit in the subgenus Grossularia, distinguished from currants by bearing spines, including Ribes hirtellum, the American gooseberry.
A chaperone.
An additional person who is neither necessary nor wanted in a given situation.
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.
Jamaican gooseberry tree (Phyllanthus acuminatus), a herb-like plant.
Star gooseberry.
A fruit, Ribes uva-crispa, related to the currant.
A fantastic story; a tall tale; a hoax.
Poison gooseberry (Withania somnifera).
A testicle.
Physalis angulata, also called balloon cherry and cutleaf groundcherry.
The Barbados gooseberry (Pereskia aculeata), an unusual cactus.
The Indian gooseberry (Phyllanthus emblica), emblic, amla.
The Long Key locustberry or shiny locustberry (Byrsonima lucida).

gooseberry frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word gooseberry occurs in english on average 0.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics gooseberry can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that gooseberry can be often used in the following areas:

1) food and health;