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kiwi fruit en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable) Alternative form of kiwifruit.
   alt of kiwifruit
   • Paso Robles 90 percent grenache and 10 percent mourvèdre rosé, this wine is pink lemonade in a bottle. It’s delightfully crisp and refreshing with notes of sea salt, white peach and kiwi fruit. 2025 August 15, Elycia Rubin, “Hollywood Sommeliers Pick the Best Rosés (and Whites) for the End of Summer”, in The Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles, C.A.: Eldridge Industries, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2025:
   • A small bottle of sparkling Rhineland wine was the centrepiece; beside it was a large marzipan pastry topped with strawberries. Kiwi fruits, grapes and pears were set around it. 1987, Christina Hardyment, “Picking up Gold and Silver”, in Heidi’s Alp: One Family’s Search for Storybook Europe, Book Club edition, New York, N.Y.: The Atlantic Monthly Press, →OCLC, page 100:
   • LOOKING FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT? Unusual! Exotic! KIWI FRUITS · PRICKLY PEARS · POMEGRANATES 1968 October 2, “Kroger”, in The Salem News, volume 80, number 246, Salem, Oh., page 12, column 3:
   • Kiwi: Kiwi fruits are imported from New Zealand. Sometimes called Chinese gooseberries, these brown fuzzy-skinned fruits will be soft to the touch, like an avocado, when ripe. To serve this fruit, peel and slice. 1969, “Guide to Buying Fruit”, in “Buying, Storing, and Preparing”, in Better Homes and Gardens Salad Book, New York, N.Y.; Des Moines, Ia.: Better Homes and Gardens Books, published 1970 (2nd printing), page 146, column 1:
   • This particular program, he [Graham Kerr] told us, would be about the finest dish in the world—which turned out to be called Veal Cutlets Yerex. Natch. For this you apparently needed three kiwi fruits, but the idea infuriated him. “It’s not a kiwi fruit,” he told us. “That’s just the stupid, vulgar, idiotic, irresponsible name the New Zealand government has given it. It’s a Chinese gooseberry—obviously.” 1969 May 10, Cleveland Amory, “Review: The Galloping Gourmet”, in Merrill Panitt, editor, TV Guide, volume 17, number 19 (841 overall), Radnor, Pa.: Triangle Publications, Inc., →ISSN, page 32, columns 1–2:
   • This being New Zealand, menus tend to feature lamb. Don’t pass up the opportunity to try kumera, a kind of sweet potato, or pumpkin soup. Surprisingly, kiwi fruit is not everywhere, but full cream milk, with the cream floating on top, is. 1991 October 27, Merrill Perlman, “Exploring a World of Glaciers”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2023:
   • He’s currently touring through Australia and New Zealand but, with new songs to write, he prefers less party and more chill vibes on the road. “My tour riders are not very rock & roll,” he says, with a laugh. “I [ask for] carrots, hummus, kiwi fruit and tea. And it usually comes without a cup, or a kettle, or milk. So I can’t actually make the tea!” 2016 April 15, Suzy Exposito, “Jamie Lawson on His Earthy Pop Sound, Performing With Ed Sheeran”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Jan 2021:
   • In the late 20th century, a glossy-magazine version of aspirational health went something like this: first you lie in a fluffy, white bathrobe with your hair in a towel, with mashed avocado on your skin as a “natural face mask” and cucumber slices on your eyes, and then you go out for brunch – eggs benedict, probably a buck’s fizz, and then a salad with slices of kiwi fruit. 2015 October 5, Jess Cartner-Morley, “The avocado is overcado: how #eatclean turned it into a cliche”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Oct 2015:
   • Like you? You want me to see the world as you do? Pricks as bananas, twats as tacos, and tits as mangoes, kiwi fruits, and ten different kinds of melon?! At the aquarium, do you see fish? At the funhouse, do you have fun? Making love?—fruit salad! 1985, Samuel Shem [pseudonym; Stephen Joseph Bergman], chapter 8, in Fine: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s/Marek, →ISBN, page 76:

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