kiwi
part of speech
noun (a kiwi, kiwis); Kiwi (informal, a New Zealander)
meaning for a pupil
1) A kiwi is a small brown bird from New Zealand that cannot fly; it has a long beak with nostrils at the tip and hunts at night. tree →
2) A kiwi, or kiwi fruit, is an oval fruit with brown hairy skin and bright green flesh with tiny black seeds. tree →
3) A Kiwi (with a capital K, informal) is a person from New Zealand. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science, the kiwi bird is a flightless bird like the emu and ostrich; it is nocturnal, smells its food (worms and insects) and lays a very large egg for its size; it is endangered and protected. In everyday life kiwi fruit is a healthy snack rich in vitamin C. New Zealanders proudly call themselves Kiwis; the bird is the national symbol. Phrases: «kiwi fruit», «a Kiwi».
examples
- The kiwi is a bird that cannot fly. tree →
- Kiwis come out at night to look for worms. tree →
- I had a kiwi fruit in my lunchbox. tree →
- Cut the kiwi in half and scoop it out with a spoon. tree →
- My cousin is a Kiwi; she lives in Auckland. tree →
- The kiwi is the national bird of New Zealand. tree →
- Kiwi birds lay huge eggs for their size. tree →
- Dogs and stoats are dangerous for kiwis. tree →
note
Plural kiwis. «Kiwi» meaning a person from New Zealand is written with a capital K and is friendly, not rude. The fruit used to be called «Chinese gooseberry»; it was renamed after the bird.
In the corpora
- New Zealand had no ground-hunting mammals before people came, so birds like the kiwi and kakapo did not need to fly.
- A boy in New Zealand walks his dog on a lead in a forest where kiwi live.
- A kiwi is a rare bird that cannot fly, and even a friendly dog off its lead can kill one in seconds.
- The kiwi is a flightless bird of New Zealand.
- Not all birds can fly: penguins, ostriches, emus and kiwis are birds that can't, but all birds have feathers.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «kiwi» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.