Blackberry vs Gooseberry - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between blackberry and gooseberry

is that blackberry is a fruit-bearing shrub of the species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids while gooseberry is a fruit, Ribes uva-crispa, closely related to the currant.

As a verb blackberry

is to gather or forage for blackberries.

As a proper noun BlackBerry

is a smartphone brand. The brand name of a wireless handheld device, a cross between a cellphone and a mobile email appliance and Internet-capable PDA, by BlackBerry Limited or by extension similar apparatus made by competitors.

blackberry

English

(wikipedia blackberry) (Rubus fruticosus)

Noun

(blackberries)

A fruit-bearing shrub of the species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids.

The soft fruit borne by this shrub, formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets.

(UK, in some regions) The blackcurrant.

Synonyms

* (shrub and fruit) bramble

Derived terms

* blackberrying

Verb

To gather or forage for .

* 1925 , Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway :

She had gone up into the tower alone and left them blackberrying in the sun

* 1977 , Howard Frank Mosher, Disappearances , Mariner Books (2006), ISBN 9780618694068, page 111:

My mother and Cordelia were blackberrying along the woods edge of a nearby meadow.

* 2001 , Thomas Keneally, Victim of the Aurora , Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2001), ISBN 9780156007337, page 72:

My wife and children were blackberrying at the end of the garden and I was simply reading.

* 2004 , Janet Bord, The Traveller's Guide to Fairy Sites: The Landscape and Folklore of Fairyland In England, Wales And Scotland , Gothic Image (2004), ISBN 9780906362648, page 48:

Another instance of someone who is blackberrying and sees fairies can be found at Kingheriot Farm (South-West Wales: Pembrokeshire ): maybe gathering berries puts the percipient into a relaxed or dissociated frame of mind, more conducive to being able to see things that one would perhaps not normally be able to see.

English karmadharaya compounds

gooseberry

English

(wikipedia gooseberry)

Noun

(gooseberries)

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

We had a good haul of gooseberries from our tree this year.

Ribes hirtellum , the closely related (American gooseberry).

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

# 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

# the (Indian gooseberry), , emblic, amla.

# the (Ceylon gooseberry), a species of native to Sri Lanka and southern India

# the (Barbados gooseberry), , an unusual cactus

# The (Long Key locustberry) or (shiny locustberry),

# (Jamaican gooseberry tree), , a herb-like plant

# (star gooseberry)

## (Otaheite gooseberry),

## (vern), , a shrub grown in some tropical regions as a leaf vegetable

# , also called (balloon cherry) and (cutleaf groundcherry)

# (Cape gooseberry), , indigenous to South America

# (poison gooseberry),

(chiefly, British) An additional person who is neither necessary nor wanted in a given situation.

* 1915 , Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of the Island , Chapter VI:

"But," said Philippa dolefully, "if I go I'll have to be gooseberry , and that will be a new experience for Philippa Gordon."

*:"Well, new experiences are broadening. Come along, and you'll be able to sympathize with all poor souls who have to play gooseberry often.

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

Synonyms

* (fruit - UK informal) goosegog * (additional person) third wheel, fifth wheel

Derived terms

* gooseberry rust