Kiwi vs. Penguin — What's the Difference?

Any of several flightless birds of the genus Apteryx native to New Zealand, having vestigial wings and a long slender bill. Also called apteryx.

Penguins (order Sphenisciformes , family Spheniscidae ) are a group of aquatic flightless birds. They live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere, with only one species, the Galápagos penguin, found north of the Equator.

(Informal) A New Zealander.

Any of various stout, flightless aquatic birds of the family Spheniscidae, of the Southern Hemisphere, having flipperlike wings and webbed feet adapted for swimming and diving, short scalelike feathers, and white underparts with a dark back.

A kiwifruit.

(Obsolete) The great auk.

A flightless bird of the genus Apteryx native to New Zealand.

Any of several flightless sea birds, of order Sphenisciformes, found in the Southern Hemisphere, marked by their usual upright stance, walking on short legs, and (generally) their stark black and white plumage.

Alternative case form of Kiwi.

An auk (sometimes especially a great auk), a bird of the Northern Hemisphere.

(informal) A New Zealand dollar.

(slang) A nun (association through appearance, because of the often black-and-white habit).

A kiwi fruit.

(juggling) A type of catch where the palm of the hand is facing towards the leg with the arm stretched downward, resembling the flipper of a penguin.

A green-yellow colour, like that of kiwi fruit flesh (also called kiwi green).

A spiny bromeliad with egg-shaped fleshy fruit, Bromelia pinguin.

A member of the air force who does not fly.

A member of the air force who does not fly aircraft.

Climbing vine native to China; cultivated in New Zealand for its fuzzy edible fruit with green meat

Any bird of the order Impennes, or Ptilopteri. They are covered with short, thick feathers, almost scalelike on the wings, which are without true quills. They are unable to fly, but use their wings to aid in diving, in which they are very expert. See King penguin, under Jackass.

A native or inhabitant of New Zealand

The egg-shaped fleshy fruit of a West Indian plant (Bromelia Pinguin) of the Pineapple family; also, the plant itself, which has rigid, pointed, and spiny-toothed leaves, and is used for hedges.

Fuzzy brown egg-shaped fruit with slightly tart green flesh

Short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet and wings modified as flippers

Nocturnal flightless bird of New Zealand having a long neck and stout legs; only surviving representative of the order Apterygiformes