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# kiwi

«kiwi» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small brown bird from New Zealand that cannot fly; it…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a kiwi, kiwis); Kiwi (informal, a New Zealander)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A kiwi is a small brown bird from New Zealand that cannot fly; it has a long beak with nostrils at the tip and hunts at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kiwi/#m1)

2) A kiwi, or kiwi fruit, is an oval fruit with brown hairy skin and bright green flesh with tiny black seeds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kiwi/#m2)

3) A Kiwi (with a capital K, informal) is a person from New Zealand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kiwi/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science, the kiwi bird is a flightless bird like the emu and ostrich; it is nocturnal, smells its food (worms and insects) and lays a very large egg for its size; it is endangered and protected. In everyday life kiwi fruit is a healthy snack rich in vitamin C. New Zealanders proudly call themselves Kiwis; the bird is the national symbol. Phrases: «kiwi fruit», «a Kiwi».

### examples

- The kiwi is a bird that cannot fly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kiwi/#x1)
- Kiwis come out at night to look for worms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kiwi/#x2)
- I had a kiwi fruit in my lunchbox. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kiwi/#x3)
- Cut the kiwi in half and scoop it out with a spoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kiwi/#x4)
- My cousin is a Kiwi; she lives in Auckland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kiwi/#x5)
- The kiwi is the national bird of New Zealand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kiwi/#x6)
- Kiwi birds lay huge eggs for their size. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kiwi/#x7)
- Dogs and stoats are dangerous for kiwis. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kiwi/#x8)

### note

Plural kiwis. «Kiwi» meaning a person from New Zealand is written with a capital K and is friendly, not rude. The fruit used to be called «Chinese gooseberry»; it was renamed after the bird.

### In the corpora

- [New Zealand had no ground-hunting mammals before people came, so birds like the kiwi and kakapo did not need to fly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/79-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand/10/)
- [A boy in New Zealand walks his dog on a lead in a forest where kiwi live.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/70-respecting-wild-animals/4/)
- [A kiwi is a rare bird that cannot fly, and even a friendly dog off its lead can kill one in seconds.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/70-respecting-wild-animals/5/)
- [The kiwi is a flightless bird of New Zealand.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/45-uk-ireland-canada-australia-nz/18/)
- [Not all birds can fly: penguins, ostriches, emus and kiwis are birds that can't, but all birds have feathers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/185-some-all-none-and-not-all/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «kiwi» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kiwi/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.