gooseberry - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • play: The 500 will sleep 5 people ( who's playing gooseberry?
  • pick: And speaking of gardens, aren't we supposed to be picking gooseberries sometime this week?
  • prune: Prune gooseberries now if they were left unpruned over winter.
  • have: If we had not had the gooseberries we would not have lasted out.

Adjective modifier

  • Indian: One of the most significant in income terms is Amla, the Indian gooseberry.
  • fresh: Fresh Gooseberries do not store well but may be bottled or frozen.
  • stewed: Supporters found elderflowers, subdued oak and stewed gooseberries on the nose and sweet, creamy vanilla coupled with refreshing acidity on the palate.
  • red: The neat taste is honey, licorice and sweet red gooseberries.

Modifies a noun

  • sawfly: Carry out a thorough weekly inspection of gooseberries from May onwards concentrating in the center of the bush for larvae of gooseberry sawfly.
  • bush: Jim was in the fruit plot with the gooseberry bushes.
  • fool: The Southbank has that classic gooseberry fool profile with a touch of nettle too.
  • flavor: A nose of cut grass gives way to typical gooseberry flavors, backed up with a slight hint of blackcurrant on the finish.
  • fruit: The palate was well balanced with some ripe gooseberry fruit coming through.
  • mildew: American gooseberry mildew The damage: Leaves and sometimes fruit develop a powdery white coating.

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