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lichee \lichee\ n.

  1. A Chinese tree ( Litchi chinensis) cultivated especially in the Philippines and India for its edible fruit, the litchi nut; sometimes placed in the genus Nephelium.

    Syn: litchi, litchi tree, Litchi chinensis, Nephelium litchi.

  2. A Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried.

    Syn: litchi, litchi nut, litchee, lichi, leechee, lychee.

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n. (alternative form of lychee English)

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  1. n. Chinese tree cultivated especially in Philippines and India for its edible fruit; sometimes placed in genus Nephelium [syn: litchi, litchi tree, Litchi chinensis, Nephelium litchi]

  2. Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried [syn: litchi, litchi nut, litchee, lichi, leechee, lychee]

Usage examples of "lichee".

There were foods he had never even heard of: lichee nuts and dried honey dates and curious cakes of rice flour and nuts and red sugar, and horned fish from the sea and many other things.

Large platters of chicken had been served- almond chicken, cashew chicken, button mushroom chicken, and lichee chicken.

Mack could detect the clean smells of bamboo and sandalwood above the more insistent odors of garlic, charcoal, rice-wine vinegar, and lichee nuts.