🇬🇧 Kiwi meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A kiwi is a special bird that lives in New Zealand. It is about the size of a chicken, but it cannot fly at all. Instead of smooth feathers, it has feathers that look like soft hairs. It has a long, thin beak that it uses to poke into the ground to find bugs and worms to eat at night. Kiwis are shy, mostly come out in the dark, and are very important to New Zealand—so important that the kiwi is the national symbol of the country, and people from New Zealand are often nicknamed “Kiwis” too.

The kiwi opened its wings dramatically and absolutely nothing happened, which was very disappointing but also hilarious.

During a race, the kiwi didn’t fly, but its speedy little legs still beat the pigeon who kept getting distracted.

When the kiwi tried to fly, it just did a dramatic hop and pretended that was the plan.

The kiwi told the penguin, "At least you slide on ice; I just sprint through bushes like a fuzzy potato on legs."

The kiwi looked at the sky and said, "Nope, not flying today, or any day."

A child finds a lost kiwi under a fern at dusk. The kiwi pecks gently at her shoe, then at a worm. She steps back, smiling as the kiwi shuffles fuzzy feathers and taps its long beak. A second kiwi answers. The child waves; the kiwi and the other kiwi fade into night.

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This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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