What came first, the fruit 🥝 or the bird? It was the bird! The kiwi fruit is native to China. English speakers originally named it "Chinese Gooseberry," but the word gooseberry already referred to several species of currants. When New Zealanders started calling it "kiwifruit" in the 1950s, the rest of the anglophone world was quick to adopt the new name. The fruit's brown fuzzy appearance is indeed reminiscent of the kiwi bird, which has hair-like feathers. Join us tomorrow to learn all about t

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The Life of a Kiwi Flipbook