JUST WHAT IS A KIWI?

All right, boys and girls, the lesson for the day covers the subject, what is a kiwi? Today, most will answer that it is a fuzzy fruit...and maybe it comes from New Zealand....which is part of the correct answer. Before NZ began to export the fuzzy fruit, it was known as the Chinese Gooseberry and now most of the Kiwi fruit is grown in California (or perhaps Chile or China) As for the rest of the story, here is what the dictionary says:

n. ki·wi
pl. ki·wis

1. Any of several flightless birds of the genus Apteryx native to New Zealand, having vestigial wings and a long slender bill. Also called apteryx.
2.
a. A woody Chinese vine (Actinidia chinensis) having brown fuzzy edible fruit with a green sweet pulp.
b. The fruit of this plant. Also called Chinese gooseberry.
3. Informal: A New Zealander (as in, "Marie is a Kiwi")

This is NOT a real Kiwi (bird)













Rare Wild Kiwi Photo