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Meaning of kiwi fruit | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

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.

Equivalents

العربية كِيوِي
Български киви
Bosanski kivi киви
Català kiwi
Čeština kiwi
Dansk kiwi
Ελληνικά ακτινίδιο
Esperanto kivifrukto kivio
Español kivi kiwi
Français kiwi
Gaeilge cíobhaí
Galego kiwi
עברית קיווי
हिन्दी कीवी
Hrvatski kivi киви
Magyar kivi
Հայերեն կիվի
Italiano actinidia kiwi
ქართული კივი
한국어 다래 키위
Lëtzebuergesch Kiwi
Latviešu kivi
Македонски актинидија киви
Nederlands kiwi
Polski kiwi
Português kiwi quiuí quivi
Русский киви
Slovenčina kivi
Српски kivi киви
Svenska kiwi kiwifrukt
Kiswahili kiwi
ไทย กีวี
Türkçe kivi

Examples

LOOKING FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT? Unusual! Exotic! KIWI FRUITS · PRICKLY PEARS · POMEGRANATES”
Kiwi: Kiwi fruits are imported from New Zealand. Sometimes called Chinese gooseberries, these brown fuzzy-skinned fruits will be soft to the touch, like an avocado, when ripe. To serve this fruit, peel and slice.”
This particular program, he [Graham Kerr] told us, would be about the finest dish in the worldwhich turned out to be called Veal Cutlets Yerex. Natch. For this you apparently needed three kiwi fruits, but the idea infuriated him. “It’s not a kiwi fruit,” he told us. “That’s just the stupid, vulgar, idiotic, irresponsible name the New Zealand government has given it. It’s a Chinese gooseberryobviously.””
Like you? You want me to see the world as you do? Pricks as bananas, twats as tacos, and tits as mangoes, kiwi fruits, and ten different kinds of melon?! At the aquarium, do you see fish? At the funhouse, do you have fun? Making love?—fruit salad!”
“A small bottle of sparkling Rhineland wine was the centrepiece; beside it was a large marzipan pastry topped with strawberries. Kiwi fruits, grapes and pears were set around it.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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