Kiwi Synonyms

kēwē
A native or inhabitant of New Zealand
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. chinese-gooseberry
  2. new-zealander
  3. kiwi vine
  4. Actinidia chinensis
  5. actinidia-deliciosa
Fuzzy brown egg-shaped fruit with slightly tart green flesh
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. kiwi-fruit
  2. chinese-gooseberry
Nocturnal flightless bird of New Zealand having a long neck and stout legs; only surviving representative of the order Apterygiformes
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. apteryx

Kiwi Sentence Examples

  • New Zealand has also yielded many flightless birds, notably the numerous species and genera of Dinornithidae, some of which survived into the 19th century; Pseudapteryx allied to the Kiwi; Cnemiornis, a big, flightless goose; Aptornis and Notornis, flightless rails; and Harpagornis, a truly gigantic bird of prey with tremendous wings and talons.

  • In 1851 the first kiwi known to have reached England alive was presented to the Zoological Society by Eyre, then lieutenant-governor of New Zealand.

  • From this time the whole structure of the kiwi has certainly been far better known than that of nearly any other bird, and by degrees other examples found their way to England, some of which were distributed to the various museums of the Continent and of America.'

  • We have bees, raspberries, strawberries, fruit trees and some unusual plants like hardy kiwi and elderberries.

  • Such a pygostyle is absent in Archaeopteryx, Hesperornis, Tinami and Ratitae, but it occurs individually in old specimens of the ostrich and the kiwi.

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