Spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries.

synonyms: gooseberry bush, Ribes grossularia, Ribes uva-crispa.

Roget 549: exaggeration; expansion etc. 194; hyperbole, stretch, strain, coloring; high coloring, caricature, caricatura^†; extravagance etc. (nonsense) 497; Baron Munchausen; men in buckram, yarn, fringe, embroidery, traveler's tale; fish story, gooseberry [Slang].    storm in a teacup; much ado about nothing etc. (overestimation) 482; puff, puffery etc. (boasting) 884; rant etc. (turgescence) 577^†.    figure of speech, facon de parler [Fr.]; stretch of fancy, stretch of the imagination; flight of fancy etc. (imagination) 515.    false coloring etc. (falsehood) 544; aggravation etc. 835.    ... show more

Polish: agrest, porzeczka agrest

Currant-like berry used primarily in jams and jellies.

Dutch: klapbes, kruisbes, stekelbes
Polish: agrest