"kiwi fruit" meaning in English

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Noun

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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 Maori kiwi (“kiwi bird”). Etymology templates: {{m|en|kiwi}} kiwi, {{der|en|mi|kiwi||kiwi bird}} Maori kiwi (“kiwi bird”) Head templates: {{en-noun|kiwi fruit}} kiwi fruit (plural kiwi fruit)
  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. Wikipedia link: kiwifruit Categories (lifeform): Ericales order plants, Fruits Synonyms: Chinese gooseberry, kiwi [UK, US, informal, rare], yangtao, kiwifruit Derived forms: kiwi Related terms: kiwi fruit gold Translations (fruit): kiwivrug (Afrikaans), كِيوِي (kīwī) [masculine] (Arabic), կիվի (kivi) (Armenian), কিৱি ফল (english: kiwi phol) (Assamese), ܟܝܼܘܝܼ (kīwī) [masculine] (Assyrian Neo-Aramaic), quivi [masculine] (Asturian), kiwi [masculine] (Asturian), ківі (kivi) [neuter] (Belarusian), ки́ви (kívi) [neuter] (Bulgarian), kiwi [masculine] (Catalan), 羊桃 (iûⁿ-thô) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 猴桃仔 (kâu-thô-á) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 豬公藤 [Hokkien] (Chinese), 猪公藤 (ti-kong-tîn, tu-kong-tîn) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 紅蒂蛇 [Hokkien] (Chinese), 红蒂蛇 (âng-tì-chôa) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 奇異果 (Chinese Cantonese), 奇异果 (kei⁴ ji⁶ gwo²) (Chinese Cantonese), 獼猴桃 (Chinese Cantonese), 猕猴桃 (mei⁴ hou⁴ tou⁴, nei⁴ hou⁴ tou⁴) (Chinese Cantonese), 奇偉果 (Chinese Cantonese), 奇伟果 (kei⁴ wai⁵ gwo²) (Chinese Cantonese), 獼猴桃 (Chinese Mandarin), 猕猴桃 (míhóutáo) (Chinese Mandarin), 奇異果 (Chinese Mandarin), 奇异果 (qíyìguǒ) (Chinese Mandarin), 楊桃 (Chinese Mandarin), 杨桃 (yángtáo) (Chinese Mandarin), 羊桃 (yángtáo) (Chinese Mandarin), 陽桃 (Chinese Mandarin), 阳桃 (yángtáo) (Chinese Mandarin), kiwi [neuter] (Czech), kiwi [common-gender] (Danish), kiwifrugt [common-gender] (Danish), kiwi [masculine] (Dutch), kivio (Esperanto), kivifrukto (Esperanto), kiivi (Estonian), kivifrukt [feminine] (Faroese), kiivi (Finnish), kiivihedelmä (Finnish), kiwi [masculine] (French), Kiwi [feminine] (German), chinesische Stachelbeere [feminine] (German), ακτινίδιο (aktinídio) [neuter] (Greek), קיוי (kivi) (Hebrew), कीवी (kīvī) [masculine] (Hindi), kivi (Hungarian), kiwio (Ido), buah kiwi (Indonesian), cíobhaí [masculine] (Irish), kiwi [masculine] (Italian), キーウィフルーツ (kīwi furūtsu) (Japanese), キーウィ (kīwi) (Japanese), ផ្លែគីវី (plae kivi) (Khmer), 다래 (darae) (Korean), 키위 (kiwi) (Korean), kivi (Lithuanian), Kiwi [masculine] (Luxembourgish), киви (kivi) [neuter] (Macedonian), актинидија (aktinidija) [feminine] (Macedonian), kiwi (Maltese), huakiwi (Maori), киви (kivi) (Mongolian), chʼil dishooí (Navajo), کیوی (kivi) (Persian), kiwi [neuter] (Polish), quivi [masculine] (Portuguese), quiuí [masculine] (Portuguese), kiwi [masculine] (Portuguese), kiwi [masculine] (Romanian), ки́ви (kívi) [masculine] (Russian), киви [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), kivi [Latin, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), kivi [neuter] (Slovak), kiva [feminine] (Slovak), kiwi [masculine] (Spanish), kiwi (Swahili), kiwi [common-gender] (Swedish), kiwifrukt [common-gender] (Swedish), ꠇꠤꠃꠤ ꠚꠟ (kiui fol) (Sylheti), kiwi (Tagalog), bungang kiwi (Tagalog), பசலிப்பழம் (pacalippaḻam) (Tamil), กีวี (gii-wîi) (Thai), སྤྲེལ་ཁམ (sprel kham) (Tibetan), ኪዊ (kiwi) (Tigrinya), kivi (Turkish), مايمۇن شاپتۇلى (maymun shaptuli) (Uyghur), trái ki wi (Vietnamese), trái dương đào (Vietnamese), ciwi [masculine] (Welsh), קיווי (kivi) [masculine] (Yiddish), קיוויפֿרוכט (kivifrukht) [feminine] (Yiddish)

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        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kiwi"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "word": "kiwi"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "kiwi"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "kiwifrukt"
    },
    {
      "code": "syl",
      "lang": "Sylheti",
      "roman": "kiui fol",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "word": "ꠇꠤꠃꠤ ꠚꠟ"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "word": "kiwi"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "word": "bungang kiwi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ta",
      "lang": "Tamil",
      "roman": "pacalippaḻam",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "word": "பசலிப்பழம்"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "gii-wîi",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "word": "กีวี"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "sprel kham",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "word": "སྤྲེལ་ཁམ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ti",
      "lang": "Tigrinya",
      "roman": "kiwi",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "word": "ኪዊ"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "word": "kivi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ug",
      "lang": "Uyghur",
      "roman": "maymun shaptuli",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "word": "مايمۇن شاپتۇلى"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "word": "trái ki wi"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "word": "trái dương đào"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ciwi"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "kivi",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "קיווי"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "kivifrukht",
      "sense": "fruit",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "קיוויפֿרוכט"
    }
  ],
  "word": "kiwi fruit"
}

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