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kiwifruit

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A Chinese gooseberry vine fruit, having a hairy brown skin and dark green (or in the case of the gold kiwifruit, yellow) flesh with fine black seeds, almost always Actinidia chinensis var. deliciosa.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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History

Etymology

From Kiwi /kiwi (“of or from New Zealand”) + fruit; a trade name used by exporters for one of several varieties selectively bred in New Zealand.

Across languages

Translations

91 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: kiwivrug — fruit
  • Arabic: كِيوِي (kīwī) — fruit
  • Arabic: كيوي (kīwi) — fruit
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟܝܼܘܝܼ (kīwī) — fruit
  • Armenian: կիվի (kivi) — fruit
  • Assamese: কিৱি ফল — fruit
  • Asturian: quivi — fruit
  • Asturian: kiwi — fruit
  • Belarusian: ківі (kivi) — fruit
  • Bulgarian: ки́ви (kívi) — fruit
  • Catalan: kiwi — fruit
  • Chinese Cantonese: 奇異果 /奇异果 (kei4 ji6 gwo2) — fruit
  • Chinese Cantonese: 獼猴桃 /猕猴桃 (mei4 hou4 tou4, nei4 hou4 tou4) — fruit
  • Chinese Cantonese: 奇偉果 /奇伟果 (kei4 wai5 gwo2) — fruit
  • Chinese: 羊桃 (iûn-thô) — fruit
  • Chinese: 猴桃仔 (kâu-thô-á) — fruit
  • Chinese: 豬公藤 /猪公藤 (ti-kong-tîn, tu-kong-tîn) — fruit
  • Chinese: 紅蒂蛇 /红蒂蛇 (âng-tì-chôa) — fruit
  • Chinese Mandarin: 獼猴桃 /猕猴桃 (míhóutáo) — fruit
  • Chinese Mandarin: 奇異果 /奇异果 (qíyìguǒ) — fruit
  • Chinese Mandarin: 楊桃 /杨桃 (yángtáo) — fruit
  • Chinese Mandarin: 羊桃 (yángtáo) — fruit
  • Chinese Mandarin: 陽桃 /阳桃 (yángtáo) — fruit
  • Czech: kiwi — fruit
  • Danish: kiwi — fruit
  • Danish: kiwifrugt — fruit
  • Dutch: kiwi — fruit
  • Esperanto: kivio — fruit
  • Esperanto: kivifrukto — fruit
  • Estonian: kiivi — fruit
  • Faroese: kivifrukt — fruit
  • Finnish: kiivi — fruit
  • Finnish: kiivihedelmä — fruit
  • French: kiwi — fruit
  • Georgian: კივი (ḳivi) — fruit
  • German: Kiwi — fruit
  • German: chinesische Stachelbeere — fruit
  • Greek: ακτινίδιο (aktinídio) — fruit
  • Hebrew: קיוי (kivi) — fruit
  • Hindi: कीवी (kīvī) — fruit
  • Hungarian: kivi — fruit
  • Ido: kiwio — fruit
  • Indonesian: buah kiwi — fruit
  • Ingrian: aktinidia — fruit
  • Irish: cíobhaí — fruit
  • Italian: kiwi — fruit
  • Italian: actinidia — fruit
  • Japanese: キーウィフルーツ (kīwi furūtsu) — fruit
  • Japanese: キーウィ (kīwi) — fruit
  • Khmer: ផ្លែគីវី (plae kivi) — fruit
  • Korean: 다래 (darae) — fruit
  • Korean: 키위 (kiwi) — fruit
  • Lithuanian: kivi — fruit
  • Luxembourgish: Kiwi — fruit
  • Macedonian: киви (kivi) — fruit
  • Macedonian: актинидија (aktinidija) — fruit
  • Maltese: kiwi — fruit
  • Māori: huakiwi — fruit
  • Mongolian: киви (kivi) — fruit
  • Navajo: chʼil dishooí — fruit
  • Persian: کیوی (kivi) — fruit
  • Polish: kiwi — fruit
  • Portuguese: quivi — fruit
  • Portuguese: quiuí — fruit
  • Portuguese: kiwi — fruit
  • Romanian: kiwi — fruit
  • Russian: ки́ви (kívi) — fruit
  • Serbo-Croatian: киви — fruit
  • Serbo-Croatian: kivi — fruit
  • Slovak: kivi — fruit
  • Slovak: kiva — fruit
  • Spanish: kiwi — fruit
  • Spanish: kivi — fruit
  • Swahili: kiwi — fruit
  • Swedish: kiwi — fruit
  • Swedish: kiwifrukt — fruit
  • Sylheti: ꠇꠤꠃꠤ ꠚꠟ (kiui fol) — fruit
  • Tagalog: kiwi — fruit
  • Tagalog: bungang kiwi — fruit
  • Tamil: பசலிப்பழம் (pacalippaḻam) — fruit
  • Thai: กีวี (gii-wîi) — fruit
  • Tibetan: སྤྲེལ་ཁམ (sprel kham) — fruit
  • Tigrinya: ኪዊ (kiwi) — fruit
  • Turkish: kivi — fruit
  • Uyghur: مايمۇن شاپتۇلى (maymun shaptuli) — fruit
  • Uyghur: مىخۇتاۋ (mixutaw) — fruit
  • Vietnamese: trái ki wi — fruit
  • Vietnamese: trái dương đào — fruit
  • Welsh: ciwi — fruit
  • Yiddish: קיווי (kivi) — fruit
  • Yiddish: קיוויפֿרוכט (kivifrukht) — fruit