gooseberrylike

English

Etymology

gooseberry +‎ -like

Adjective

gooseberrylike (comparative more gooseberrylike, superlative most gooseberrylike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a gooseberry.
    • 2003, Rachel Carson, The sea around us:
      There are gooseberrylike comb jellies, armed with grasping tentacles, and there are the shrimplike euphausiids that strain food from the water with their bristly appendages.
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