Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun kiwi

4 senses of kiwi

Sense 1
Chinese gooseberry, kiwi, kiwi vine, Actinidia chinensis, Actinidia deliciosa -- (climbing vine native to China; cultivated in New Zealand for its fuzzy edible fruit with green meat)
       => vine -- (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)

Sense 2
New Zealander, Kiwi -- (a native or inhabitant of New Zealand)
       => inhabitant, habitant, dweller, denizen, indweller -- (a person who inhabits a particular place)

Sense 3
kiwi, kiwi fruit, Chinese gooseberry -- (fuzzy brown egg-shaped fruit with slightly tart green flesh)
       => edible fruit -- (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

Sense 4
kiwi, apteryx -- (nocturnal flightless bird of New Zealand having a long neck and stout legs; only surviving representative of the order Apterygiformes)
       => ratite, ratite bird, flightless bird -- (flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches; cassowaries; emus; moas; rheas; kiwis; elephant birds)