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kiwi-fruit

kiwi-fruit is the alternative form of kiwifruit.

Meaning of kiwifruit

Noun

kiwifruit (countable and uncountable, plural kiwifruit or kiwifruits)

  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.
    • The international threat isn't coming from New Zealand, whose growing season does not conflict with California's. New Zealand kiwifruit is marketed in the summer months; California's season is from November through May.1990 May 23, Carole Sugarman, “O Say Can You Kiwi? U.S. Growers Battle Imports”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28...

Forms of kiwi-fruit

pluralkiwi-fruit
pluralkiwi-fruits

Questions about kiwi-fruit

What is kiwi-fruit the alternative form of?
Kiwi-fruit is the alternative form of kiwifruit.

Words near kiwi-fruit in the dictionary

  1. Kiwi cricket
  2. Kiwi dollar
  3. Kiwi dollars
  4. kiwi fruit
  5. kiwi fruits
  6. kiwi-fruit
  7. kiwi-fruits
  8. kiwi-ing
  9. Kiwiana
  10. kiwiberries
  11. kiwiberry

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kiwi-fruit (page history and authors); kiwifruit (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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