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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
kiwi
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
kiwi fruit
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
fruit
▪ Peel and slice the kiwi fruit.
▪ Sliced kiwi fruit may be used to decorate the dessert.
▪ Nearby is a new little grocery store selling expensive avocados, bottled prawns and kiwi fruit.
▪ Pile the cottage cheese on to the potatoes and arrange slices of kiwi fruit on top.
▪ Kiwi is now safely back at home enjoying his usual vegetarian diet of oranges, apples and of course kiwi fruit.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An acorn is tiny compared to its parent, but a kiwi lays an egg a quarter her own weight.
▪ Arrange the sliced kiwi down the centre and the halved strawberries alongside.
▪ Decorate with a slice of kiwi and a sprig of mint.
▪ Decorate with a slice of starfruit and kiwi.
▪ Sliced kiwi fruit may be used to decorate the dessert.
▪ Standard fare is available: bacon and eggs, toast, fresh fruit ranging from kiwi to papaya and crusty croissants.
▪ That caused farmers everywhere to go into the kiwi growing business.
▪ When marketing whizzes renamed the fruit the kiwi, says the newsletter Turn Signals, sales shot up all over the world.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
kiwi

Kivikivi \Ki`vi*ki"vi\, Kiwikiwi \Ki`wi*ki"wi\, n.; pl. Kivikivies (?), Kiwikiwies. (Zo["o]l.) Any species of Apteryx, esp. Apteryx australis; -- so called in imitation of its notes. More commonly called kiwi. See Apteryx.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
kiwi

type of flightless bird, 1835, from Maori kiwi, said to be of imitative origin. As slang for "a New Zealander," it is attested from 1918. The kiwi fruit (Actinia chinesis), was so called in U.S. from c.1966 when it was imported there, but it is known in New Zealand as Chinese gooseberry (1925).

Wiktionary
kiwi

n. 1 A flightless bird of the genus ''Apteryx'' native to New Zealand. 2 (alternative case form of Kiwi lang=en nodot=1) (gloss: person from New Zealand). 3 A New Zealand dollar. 4 A kiwi fruit.

WordNet
kiwi
  1. n. climbing vine native to China; cultivated in New Zealand for its fuzzy edible fruit with green meat [syn: Chinese gooseberry, kiwi vine, Actinidia chinensis, Actinidia deliciosa]

  2. a native or inhabitant of New Zealand [syn: New Zealander]

  3. fuzzy brown egg-shaped fruit with slightly tart green flesh [syn: kiwi fruit, Chinese gooseberry]

  4. nocturnal flightless bird of New Zealand having a long neck and stout legs; only surviving representative of the order Apterygiformes [syn: apteryx]

Wikipedia
KIWI

KIWI (102.9 FM, "Radio Lobo") is a commercial radio station located in McFarland, California, broadcasting to the Bakersfield, California, area. The station is owned by Lotus Communications Corporation and licensed to Lotus Bakersfield Corp. KIWI airs a Regional Mexican music format.

Kiwi (people)

Kiwi is the nickname used internationally for people from New Zealand, as well as being a relatively common self-reference. The name derives from the kiwi, a flightless bird, which is native to, and the national symbol of, New Zealand. Unlike many demographic labels, its usage is not considered offensive; it is generally viewed as a symbol of pride and endearment for the people of New Zealand.

Kiwi (shoe polish)

Kiwi is the brand name of a shoe polish, first launched and sold in Australia in 1906 and sold in almost 180 countries. Previously owned by the Sara Lee Corporation since 1984, it was sold in 2011 to S. C. Johnson. It is the dominant shoe polish in some countries, including the United Kingdom and the United States, where it has about two-thirds of the market.

The polish was developed in Australia by William Ramsay who named it Kiwi after the flightless bird endemic to New Zealand, the home country of his wife, Annie Elizabeth Meek Ramsay. Its success in Australia expanded overseas when it was adopted by both the British and American armies in World War I.

In the UK, Kiwi was for many years manufactured at its British headquarters in Ealing (Brumwill Road, London W5 1DT). From here the factory manufactured for the UK market, and exported the Kiwi brand to much of Europe and the Middle East. In the mid-1970s as part of a major streamlining, the UK factory was closed with production switched to France. The UK operation moved to Surrey (Yately) becoming, effectively, a sales and marketing office, with distribution contracted to a third party.

In 1980 production for the UK market moved back to the UK, and was housed in a factory near Huddersfield. The UK head office was relocated to Maidstone, Kent, where Kiwi had other product interests.

Following the global merger with Nicholas Laboratories, the UK head office was again relocated to Slough at the Nicholas building on the Bath Road.

Kiwi (horse)

Kiwi (1977 – 2 February 1995) was a New Zealand thoroughbred racehorse who in 1983 won the Wellington Cup in New Zealand and the Melbourne Cup in Australia. Kiwi raced from 1980 to 1987 and remains the only horse ever to win both cups.

Kiwi (disambiguation)

Kiwi are flightless birds native to New Zealand.

Kiwi or KIWI may also refer to:

  • Kiwifruit
  • Kiwi (people), a nickname for New Zealanders
  • New Zealand dollar, a unit of currency
Kiwi (band)

Kiwi is a girl group from Mongolia.

KIWI (computing)

KIWI is an application for making a wide variety of image sets for Linux supported hardware platforms as well as virtualisation systems including QEMU, Xen and VMware.

It is developed by the openSUSE Project and used to create openSUSE Linux but can also be employed to build a variety of other Linux distributions.

Kiwi (store)

Kiwi is a discount store chain in partnership with NorgesGruppen that has 630 retail outlets in Norway, and 102 in Denmark. The stores carry 3,700 articles on 300–1,000 square meters of sales area. Kiwi has about 8000 employees. In addition to premium brands it also carries the private label First Price. In Denmark, Kiwi is a joint venture between NorgesGruppen and Dagrofa.

In Denmark Kiwi primarily operates in Jutland and Funen. With only two stores in other locations. In June 2010 it opened its first store in the capital region. It is located in the Østerbro region of Copenhagen.

Kiwi was owned and operated by Norwegian businessman Per-Erik Burud, who in July 2011 died in a boating accident. After Burud's death, Jan Paul Bjørkøy was constituted as new leader of the chain. Especially conspicuous is their corporate-color which is green. The company is also participating in the action "Nøkkellhullmerket". That is an initiative throughout Sweden, Denmark and Norway arranged by health- and nurushment-institutions who is marking healthy food.

Usage examples of "kiwi".

The large platter also contained smoked salmon, pickled herring, liver pate, melba toast, bagels and cream cheese, artichoke hearts and slices of Kiwi fruit and papaya.

Fresh fish and apples, books, jewelry, kiwi fruit, kewpie dolls, old coins, and every conceivable thing to eat or use rapidly disappeared from view.

Ambrose Lutterworth, apparent victim of a sailing mishap off Point Loma, were found entangled in the kelp beds by a fishing trawler on May 6, the date of the first Kiwi victory.

He looked around at a room full of yachting types and regatta hangers-on but there were no Kiwi sailors that he recognized.

Kiwi and I were well past the disposable-friendship stage, but the last week in Paris was spacey for all four of us as we cooled down toward each other in our attempts to play down the pain of imminent fragmentation.

The best choices for fruit include apples, apricots, pears, oranges, raspberries, plums, kiwi, blueberries, strawberries, grapes, and grapefruit.

The Aussies were down to one boat and stood little chance against the coldly efficient Kiwis.

There was already an assortment of Aussies and Kiwis present who outnumbered the Yanks and certainly outdrank them.

Koalas, dingoes, kangaroos, and other marsupials huddled in the creek along with snakes and hares, emus, kiwis, and other birds.

I then watched Kiwi gallumph down the sidewalk, his four-food-group-enhanced body far bigger, more wholesome, and more innocent than the Europeans as a group, as New Worlders so often are.

From the display cases, she selected a chocolate eclair, a creme brulee tart with kiwi on top, a piece of white-chocolate macadamia-nut cheesecake with Oreo-crumb crust, a cinnamon wheel, and a slice of orange roulade.

I utterly ignore her, to no avail, and while she's in midsentence – Page Six, Jackie O – I resort to waving our waiter over and ordering the cold corn chowder lemon bisque with peanuts and dill, an arugula Caesar salad and swordfish meat loaf with kiwi mustard, even though I already ordered this and he tells me so.

Walter became a distinguished Kiwi, eventually attaining the office of Minister of Native Affairs.

Now in his late twenties and making a career out of unemployment, Neville had jettisoned the camphor bags and forced himself into his one suit, given his brothel creepers a coat of Kiwi, and wandered down to the Swan to present himself.

I resort to waving our waiter over and ordering the cold corn chowder lemon bisque with peanuts and dill, an arugula Caesar salad and swordfish meat loaf with kiwi mustard, even though I already ordered this and he tells me so.