kiwi fruit
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- noun
- /ˈkiːwi fruːt/
:
fruta kiwi
- kiwi fruit slice
- kiwi fruit and avocado
- kiwi fruit peeled
Examples
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"It's like looking at a kiwi fruit, slice by slice, compared to looking at the whole fruit," Jones says.
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Also I like having avocados on hand at all time and I have some Kiwi fruit too just to snack on.
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And this includes Kiwi fruit, prunes, figs, chia seeds and flax seeds.
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For dessert, we made a refreshing fruit salad with slices of kiwi fruit and strawberries.
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I enjoy eating kiwi fruit because of its sweet and tart flavor.
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She added diced kiwi fruit to the smoothie for an extra burst of flavor.
Synonyms
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A small brown fuzzy fruit with bright green flesh and tiny black seeds
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A small brown fruit with fuzzy skin, green flesh, and many small black seeds
A small fuzzy brown fruit with sour green flesh called kiwifruit
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Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from the constituents: 'kiwi' names a specific kind of fuzzy brown edible item and 'fruit' marks it as an edible seed-bearing product, so 'kiwi fruit' straightforwardly denotes the fruit of the kiwi. This noun + noun type labeling is common across languages and follows an obvious compositional pattern, making it easily understood by a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
The noun kiwi fruit comes from New Zealand, where growers renamed the old 'Chinese gooseberry' after the small brown bird called the kiwi because the fruit's brown, fuzzy skin looked like the bird's feathers. So today kiwi fruit simply means the small, fuzzy brown fruit we eat.