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kiwi — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • kiwi noun A flightless New Zealand bird with a long beak and hair-like feathers.

Senses

kiwi is used for these senses in English:

  • kiwi A flightless bird of the order Apterygiformes native to New Zealand.
  • kiwi fruit 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.

kiwi — full definition

  1. noun A flightless New Zealand bird with a long beak and hair-like feathers.
  2. noun Informal term for a person from New Zealand.
  3. noun Short for kiwifruit, a fuzzy-skinned green fruit.