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Chinese gooseberry

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Chinese gooseberry
n.
See kiwifruit.
Chinese gooseberry
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) another name for kiwi fruit
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Noun1.Chinese gooseberry - climbing vine native to ChinaChinese gooseberry - climbing vine native to China; cultivated in New Zealand for its fuzzy edible fruit with green meat
Actinidia chinensis, Actinidia deliciosa, kiwi, kiwi vine
kiwi fruit, Chinese gooseberry, kiwi - fuzzy brown egg-shaped fruit with slightly tart green flesh
Actinidia, genus Actinidia - small Asiatic woody vine bearing many-seeded fruit
vine - a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface
2.Chinese gooseberry - fuzzy brown egg-shaped fruit with slightly tart green fleshChinese gooseberry - fuzzy brown egg-shaped fruit with slightly tart green flesh
kiwi fruit, kiwi
edible fruit - edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh
Actinidia chinensis, Actinidia deliciosa, Chinese gooseberry, kiwi, kiwi vine - climbing vine native to China; cultivated in New Zealand for its fuzzy edible fruit with green meat
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Kiwi also known as Chinese gooseberry, is gaining popularity among farmers of the region, but due to the lack of proper marketing network they are unable to fetch good returns for their yield.
Kiwi farmers in Kullu seek help for better marketing of products by Asian News International
FRUITY FACT The Kiwi was originally known as a Chinese Gooseberry, but renamed melonette in the mid-20th century, before a tariff on melon imports to the US sparked another change to kiwi fruit CAPTION(S): FURIOUS Trader Tim Down with the fruit
Fruit and nuts; EU chiefs ban trader's 5,000 kiwis for being 1mm too ... by The Mirror (London, England)
The most popular name was the Chinese gooseberry but, during the Cold War, anything associated with China was frowned upon by advertisers in the western world and in 1959 the name kiwi fruit was created as it was first commercially farmed in New Zealand.
Just ask; MARGRET CAMPBELL by Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
 
 
 
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