The story
From Kiwi /kiwi (“of or from New Zealand”) + fruit; a trade name used by exporters for one of several varieties selectively bred in New Zealand.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
kiwifruit
Today it means: A Chinese gooseberry vine fruit, having a hairy brown skin and dark green (or in the case of the gold kiwifruit, yellow) flesh with fine black seeds, almost always Actinidia chinensis var. deliciosa. Full definition →