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1. Climbing vine native to China; cultivated in New Zealand for its fuzzy edible fruit with green meat
   - Chinese gooseberry, kiwi vine, Actinidia chinensis, Actinidia deliciosa
    
2. Fuzzy brown egg-shaped fruit with slightly tart green flesh
   - kiwi fruit, Chinese gooseberry
    
3. Nocturnal flightless bird of New Zealand having a long neck and stout legs; only surviving representative of the order Apterygiformes
   - apteryx

1. A native or inhabitant of New Zealand
   - New Zealander, Enzed [Austral, NZ]

Derived forms: Kiwis, kiwis

Type of: denizen, dweller, edible fruit, flightless bird, habitant, indweller, inhabitant, ratite, ratite bird, vine

Part of: Actinidia, Enzed [Austral, NZ], genus Actinidia, genus Apteryx, New Zealand

Encyclopedia: Kiwi