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Kiwi

noun

Climbing vine native to China; cultivated in New Zealand for its fuzzy edible fruit with green meat. Synonyms: Actinidia chinensis, Actinidia deliciosa, Chinese gooseberry, kiwi vine.

A native or inhabitant of New Zealand. Synonym: New Zealander.

Fuzzy brown egg-shaped fruit with slightly tart green flesh. Synonyms: Chinese gooseberry, kiwi fruit.

Nocturnal flightless bird of New Zealand having a long neck and stout legs; only surviving representative of the order Apterygiformes. Synonym: apteryx.

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"Kiwi" Quotes from Famous Books

... hear them crowing away in the depths of the forest, and at first I kept imagining that I was close to some village. I also obtained some good duck shooting on a lake high up in the mountains, and Ratu Lala described to me what must be a species of apteryx, or wingless bird (like the Kiwi of New Zealand), which he said was found in the mountains and lived in holes in the ground, but I never came across it, though I had many a weary search. Ratu Lala also assured me that the wild chickens were ...

— Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines • H. Wilfrid Walker

Words linked to "Kiwi" : indweller, New Zealand, edible fruit, vine, inhabitant, dweller, ratite bird, denizen, genus Actinidia, Actinidia chinensis, Actinidia deliciosa, flightless bird, Actinidia, kiwi fruit, genus Apteryx, ratite, habitant