Kiwi Definition

kēwē
kiwis
noun
kiwis
Any of an order (Apterygiformes) of tailless New Zealand birds, with undeveloped wings, hairlike feathers, and a long, slender bill: it feeds chiefly on insects and worms.
Webster's New World
The brown, hairy, egg-shaped fruit, with a sweet, edible, green pulp, of a vine (Actinidia chinensis) of a family (Actinidiaceae, order Theales) of dicotyledonous tropical trees, shrubs, and vines.
Webster's New World
A New Zealander.
Webster's New World
A kiwifruit.
American Heritage
A person from New Zealand - (preferably Kiwi).
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
adjective
(informal) Of or from New Zealand.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Kiwi

Noun

Singular:
kiwi
Plural:
kiwis

Origin of Kiwi

  • Maori imitative of the call of male kiwis Sense 3, short for kiwifruit

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Maori kiwi.

    From Wiktionary

Kiwi Sentence Examples

  • New Zealand has also yielded many flightless birds, notably the numerous species and genera of Dinornithidae, some of which survived into the 19th century; Pseudapteryx allied to the Kiwi; Cnemiornis, a big, flightless goose; Aptornis and Notornis, flightless rails; and Harpagornis, a truly gigantic bird of prey with tremendous wings and talons.

  • In 1851 the first kiwi known to have reached England alive was presented to the Zoological Society by Eyre, then lieutenant-governor of New Zealand.

  • From this time the whole structure of the kiwi has certainly been far better known than that of nearly any other bird, and by degrees other examples found their way to England, some of which were distributed to the various museums of the Continent and of America.'

  • We have bees, raspberries, strawberries, fruit trees and some unusual plants like hardy kiwi and elderberries.

  • Such a pygostyle is absent in Archaeopteryx, Hesperornis, Tinami and Ratitae, but it occurs individually in old specimens of the ostrich and the kiwi.

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