kiwi fruit

English

kiwi fruit

Alternative forms

• kiwifruit

Etymology

Brand name used by exporters for one of several varieties of Chinese gooseberry selectively bred in New Zealand; named after the native bird known as the kiwi.

Noun

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.
2. Plural form of kiwi fruit.

Synonyms

• (fruit): kiwi (US informal; rare in New Zealand)

Translations

fruit

Translingual: Actinidia deliciosa Arabic: كيوي (ar) (kiiwi) m. Armenian: կիվի (hy) (kivi) Bosnian: kivi (bs) m. Catalan: kiwi m. Chinese: Mandarin: 獼猴桃 (cmn), 猕猴桃 (cmn) (míhóutáo), 奇異果 (zh), 奇异果 (zh) (qíyìguǒ) Min Nan: 羊桃 (iûⁿ-thô), 猴桃仔 (kâu-thô-á), 豬公藤 (ti-kong-tîn, tu-kong-tîn), 紅蒂蛇 (âng-tì-chôa) Czech: kiwi (cs) n. Danish: kiwi (da) Dutch: kiwi (nl) m. Esperanto: kivio (eo), kivifrukto (eo) Finnish: kiivi (fi), kiivihedelmä (fi) French: kiwi (fr) m. German: Kiwi (de) f., chinesische Stachelbeere (de) f. Greek: ακτινίδιο (el) n. Hebrew: קיוי (he) (kivi)

Irish: cíobhaí (ga) m. Italian: kiwi (it) m. Japanese: キーウィフルーツ (ja) (kiwifurutsu) Korean: 다래 (ko) (darae), 키위 (ko) (kiwi) Luxembourgish: Kiwi (lb) m. Macedonian: киви (mk) (kívi) n., актинида (mk) (aktinída) f. Maltese: kiwi (mt) Navajo: chʼil dishooí Polish: kiwi (pl) n. Portuguese: quivi (pt) m. Romanian: kiwi (ro) m. Russian: киви (ru) (kívi) m. (indeclinable) Serbian: Cyrillic: киви m. Latin: kivi m. Spanish: kiwi (es) Swedish: kiwi (sv) Turkish: kivi (tr)

See also

• kiwi fruit gold