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单词 gooseberry bush
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Definition of gooseberry bush in English:

gooseberry bush

noun
  • 1A thorny shrub that bears gooseberries.

    a gooseberry bush will grow to a height of five feet
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Rows of gooseberry bushes now yield fruit for pies and jams.
    • Gooseberry bushes grow wild in most of the northern temperate zone, flourishing in cool, moist, or high regions.
    • Gooseberry bushes need pruning in July, and what you are aiming for is easy access for the fruit and good airflow through the branches.
    • He feeds his gooseberry bushes with a secret nutrient recipe and monitors their progress round-the-clock.
    • Propagate new gooseberry bushes by taking hardwood cuttings from healthy plants before their leaves drop
    • Every time my gooseberry bush starts to bear fruit, it develops a fungus.
    • Autumn into winter is an excellent time for planting gooseberry bushes.
    • Up on the Yorkshire Moors, villagers are nursing their precious gooseberry bushes ahead of their annual gooseberry show on 7 August.
    • I would be grateful if you could tell me the best time to prune a gooseberry bush.
    • The orchard already boasts 50 different varieties of apple trees, and next month strawberry and gooseberry bushes are to be planted.
    1. 1.1British Used, especially in answer to a child's question, to refer to the place where newborn babies are found.
      according to my parents I was found under a gooseberry bush
      Example sentencesExamples
      • There are no storks or gooseberry bushes but a cast of midwives, grave robbers, priests, and scientists in a tale of birth, sex and death that is guaranteed to intrigue.
      • When I was a little girl, children were led to believe that babies were found under the gooseberry bush.
      • Surely everyone knows you need a gooseberry bush in the garden, because that's where you find babies.
      • I am in no fit state to discuss anything more clinically realistic than babies dropping out of the sky and landing on marshmallow blankets under a gooseberry bush.
      • She didn't arrive from under a gooseberry bush.
      • If your child wants to know how babies are made, tell him "in Mommy's tummy," and not "found under a gooseberry bush."
      • Do you mean how did you begin inside your mum's womb (echoes of our conversation about the stork and the gooseberry bush) or why did your mum decide to have a baby?
      • Wexford laughed. "A gooseberry bush is what you find babies under."
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