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GOOSEBERRIES

12 letters

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Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 24 pts

GOOSEBERRIES is a valid 12-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 24 in Super Big Boggle.

GOOSEBERRIES root GOOSEBERRY

Word family

GOOSEBERRY 11
noun
  1. A fruit of species Ribes uva-crispa, related to the currant.
    • We had a good haul of gooseberries from our bushes this year.
  2. Any other plant or fruit in the subgenus Grossularia, distinguished from currants by bearing spines, including Ribes hirtellum (American gooseberry).
  3. Chinese gooseberry or kiwifruit, the edible berry of a cultivar group of the woody vine Actinidia chinensis var. deliciosa and hybrids between this and others in the genus Actinidia
  4. Indian gooseberry (Phyllanthus emblica), emblic, amla.
  5. Ceylon gooseberry, a species of Dovyalis native to Sri Lanka and southern India
  6. Barbados gooseberry (Pereskia aculeata), an unusual cactus
  7. Long Key locustberry or shiny locustberry (Byrsonima lucida)
  8. Jamaican gooseberry tree (Phyllanthus acuminatus), a herb-like plant
  9. Otaheite gooseberry (Phyllanthus acidus)
  10. Katuk (Sauropus androgynus), a shrub grown in some tropical regions as a leaf vegetable
  11. Physalis angulata, also called balloon cherry and cutleaf groundcherry
  12. Cape gooseberry (Physalis peruviana), indigenous to South America
  13. poison gooseberry (Withania somnifera)
  14. BritishdatedslangA chaperone.
  15. UKAn additional person who is neither necessary nor wanted in a given situation.
    • Robert and Susan were so in love with each other that nobody could go near them without feeling like a gooseberry.
  16. BritishdatedslangA fool.
  17. BritishdatedslangA fantastic story; a tall tale; a hoax.
  18. BritishdatedslangvulgarA testicle.