NOUN | food | litchee, litchi, litchi nut, lichi, leechee, lichee, lychee | Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed |
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Meaning | Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried. | |
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Synonyms | litchi, litchi nut, lichi, leechee, lichee, lychee | |
Part of | litchi, lichee, litchi tree, Litchi chinensis, Nephelium litchi | Chinese tree cultivated especially in Philippines and India for its edible fruit |
Broader | edible fruit | edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh |
Spanish | lichi, litchee, litchi chinensis | |
Catalan | litxi |
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