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  • noun 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.
  • noun Plural form of kiwi fruit.

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  • noun fuzzy brown egg-shaped fruit with slightly tart green flesh

Etymologies

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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.

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