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kiwi-sized

kiwi-sized

3.9
About the size of a kiwi fruit
  • adjective
translation icon : del tamaño de un kiwi
  • Look at this kiwi-sized tomato!

Examples

  • The new speaker is small, about kiwi-sized, but has powerful sound.

  • She handed me a kiwi-sized stone she found at the beach.

  • The doctor found a kiwi-sized lump on his shoulder.

  • The new gadget is kiwi-sized.

  • The doctor found a kiwi-sized lump on his shoulder.

  • Look at this kiwi-sized tomato!

  • The new speaker is small, about kiwi-sized, but has powerful sound.

How Big

huge
∞ 1.0
large
∞ 1.0
medium
162 1.3
kiwi-sized
3.9
small
2 1.1
tiny
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

kiwi-sized positive

Morphology

kiwi-sized = kiwi (transparent) = kiwi + sized

The adjective is formed by the productive bound suffix '-sized' meaning 'of the size of' attached to the noun 'kiwi', yielding an obvious meaning for learners.

Etymology

Kiwi-sized uses kiwi, the small brown fruit named after New Zealand's fuzzy kiwi bird, as a simple picture of size. So kiwi-sized means 'about the size of a kiwi fruit', which helps you imagine a small, round thing you can hold in your hand.