Kiwi fruit

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A Chinese gooseberry vine fruit, having a hairy brown skin and dark green (or in the case of the kiwi fruit gold, yellow) flesh with fine black seeds, almost always varieties of Actinidia deliciosa.

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  2. 2
    fuzzy brown egg-shaped fruit with slightly tart green flesh wordnet

Etymology

Trade name used by exporters for one of several varieties selectively bred in New Zealand; named after the endemic New Zealand bird, the kiwi, because the fruit's fuzzy brown skin resembles the plumage of the bird. From Māori kiwi (“kiwi bird”).

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