Barbadoes gooseberry, a climbing prickly shrub (Pereskia aculeata) of
the West Indies, which bears edible berries resembling gooseberries. --
Coromandel gooseberry. See Carambola. -- Gooseberry fool. See lst Fool.
-- Gooseberry worm (Zoˆl.), the larva of a small moth (Dakruma
convolutella). It destroys the gooseberry by eating the interior.
Goose"fish` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) See Angler.
Goose"foot` (?), n. (Bot.) A genus of herbs (Chenopodium) mostly annual
weeds; pigweed.
Goos"er*y (?), n.; pl. Gooseries (&?;). 1. A place for keeping geese.