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kiwi fruit

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kiwi fruit
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) the edible oval fruit of the kiwi plant, Actinidia chinensis, a climbing plant native to Asia but grown extensively in New Zealand; it has a brown fuzzy skin and pale green flesh Also called Chinese gooseberry
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Noun1.kiwi fruitkiwi fruit - fuzzy brown egg-shaped fruit with slightly tart green flesh
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 fruit nkiwi m inv


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At 8, guests settle into the sunny breakfast room and enjoy more tropical delights - waffles with pineapple and macadamia nuts, perhaps, with papaya, kiwi fruit, grapes and juice.
If they ever started growing kiwi fruit in western Kansas, you could count on a BID to organize an association membership drive, alert legislators to the inequities faced by kiwi fruit growers on the High Plains and to pull the Kiwi Grower's float through the annual Farmer's Day parade.
Effects of kiwi fruit consumption on platelet aggregation and plasma lipids in healthy human volunteers, Platelets, 15:5.
 
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