kiwi
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Sense 1
- noun
- B2
A small oval fruit with brown hairy skin and bright green inside full of tiny black seeds.
One kiwi has more vitamin C than a whole orange.
These kiwis are still hard, so leave them a few days.
She added slices of kiwi to the fruit salad.
Common collocations: a ripe kiwi · peel a kiwi · slice a kiwi · kiwi fruit · kiwi juice
Part of: Fruit
Sense 2 · less common
- noun
- B1
A small brown bird from New Zealand that cannot fly and has a very long thin beak.
The kiwi sleeps all day and looks for food at night.
A kiwi cannot fly, so it hides in holes among tree roots.
The kiwi uses its long beak to find insects under the ground.
Common collocations: a kiwi bird · a flightless bird
Part of: Animals
Forms
- plural
- kiwis