kiwi fruit

Betekenis (Engels)

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

Sinonieme

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Chinese gooseberry

Vertalings

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chinesische Stachelbeere

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ακτινίδιο

quiuí

Kiwifrucht

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Etimologie (Engels)

Trade name used by exporters for one of several varieties selectively bred in New Zealand; named after the endemic New Zealand bird, the kiwi, because the fruit's fuzzy brown skin resembles the plumage of the bird. From Maori kiwi (“kiwi bird”).