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KIWI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Kiwi mean? 

KIWI (noun)
  The noun KIWI has 4 senses:

1. climbing vine native to China; cultivated in New Zealand for its fuzzy edible fruit with green meatplay

2. a native or inhabitant of New Zealandplay

3. fuzzy brown egg-shaped fruit with slightly tart green fleshplay

4. nocturnal flightless bird of New Zealand having a long neck and stout legs; only surviving representative of the order Apterygiformesplay

  Familiarity information: KIWI used as a noun is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


KIWI (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Climbing vine native to China; cultivated in New Zealand for its fuzzy edible fruit with green meat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Actinidia chinensis; Actinidia deliciosa; Chinese gooseberry; kiwi; kiwi vine

Hypernyms ("kiwi" is a kind of...):

vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)

Meronyms (parts of "kiwi"):

Chinese gooseberry; kiwi; kiwi fruit (fuzzy brown egg-shaped fruit with slightly tart green flesh)

Holonyms ("kiwi" is a member of...):

Actinidia; genus Actinidia (small Asiatic woody vine bearing many-seeded fruit)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A native or inhabitant of New Zealand

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Kiwi; New Zealander

Hypernyms ("Kiwi" is a kind of...):

denizen; dweller; habitant; indweller; inhabitant (a person who inhabits a particular place)

Holonyms ("Kiwi" is a member of...):

New Zealand (an independent country within the British Commonwealth; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1907; known for sheep and spectacular scenery)


Sense 3

Meaning:

Fuzzy brown egg-shaped fruit with slightly tart green flesh

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

Chinese gooseberry; kiwi; kiwi fruit

Hypernyms ("kiwi" is a kind of...):

edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

Holonyms ("kiwi" is a part of...):

Actinidia chinensis; Actinidia deliciosa; Chinese gooseberry; kiwi; kiwi vine (climbing vine native to China; cultivated in New Zealand for its fuzzy edible fruit with green meat)


Sense 4

Meaning:

Nocturnal flightless bird of New Zealand having a long neck and stout legs; only surviving representative of the order Apterygiformes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

apteryx; kiwi

Hypernyms ("kiwi" is a kind of...):

flightless bird; ratite; ratite bird (flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches; cassowaries; emus; moas; rheas; kiwis; elephant birds)

Holonyms ("kiwi" is a member of...):

genus Apteryx (type genus of the Apterygidae: kiwis)


 Context examples 


A characteristic of a medicinal product, specifying that its most predominant agreeable savor detected by the unified sensation of taste and olfactory receptors resembles kiwi.

(Kiwi Flavor, NCI Thesaurus)



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