Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An evergreen tree (Dimocarpus longan) native to China, having small yellowish-brown fruits with juicy white edible flesh.
- noun The fruit of this plant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An evergreen tree, Nephelium Longanum, closely related to the lichi, and yielding a similar but smaller and less palatable fruit. It is cultivated in China and the East Indies.
- noun The fruit itself, which is exported in a dried state. Also called
dragon's-eye .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A pulpy fruit related to the litchi, and produced by an evergreen East Indian
longanberry (Nephelium Longan ).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
evergreen tree, scientific name Dimocarpus longan, of theSapindaceae family, native to southern China. - noun The fruit from the longan tree.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun tree of southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet edible fruit resembling litchi nuts; sometimes placed in genera Euphorbia or Nephelium
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Amit said that local ingredients that are perceived to be beneficial to health such as longan, tremella and sesame have had applications in baked goods, as consumers are acquainted with their benefits and can quickly embrace products containing them.
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Sinhalese (Sri Lanka) and also "longan" in Tagalog.
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My parents had dates and peanuts, which had been served at weddings in Yan’an, and dried fruit called longan, which traditionally symbolizes a happy union and sons.
Wild Swans Jung Chang 1991
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My parents had dates and peanuts, which had been served at weddings in Yan’an, and dried fruit called longan, which traditionally symbolizes a happy union and sons.
Wild Swans Jung Chang 1991
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It is also called guiyuan (桂圓) in Chinese, Ash-fol (আঁশফল) in Bengali, lengkeng in Indonesia, mata kucing (literally "cat's eye") in Malaysia, nhãn in Vietnamese (The Species: Euphoria longana Lamk. named "long nhãn" in Vietnamese - literally "dragon's eyes"), Mora in Sinhalese (Sri Lanka) and also "longan" in
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I thought of a perp named Lumpy Flanagan wed once put away, but didnt dwell on him for longan ugly brute, with an overbite and no chinand then forgot the whole thing.
Dog on It Spencer Quinn 2009
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I thought of a perp named Lumpy Flanagan wed once put away, but didnt dwell on him for longan ugly brute, with an overbite and no chinand then forgot the whole thing.
Dog on It Spencer Quinn 2009
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I thought of a perp named Lumpy Flanagan wed once put away, but didnt dwell on him for longan ugly brute, with an overbite and no chinand then forgot the whole thing.
Dog on It Spencer Quinn 2009
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Although it isn't longan season, this beefy fellow was offering bags of the stuff.
Archive 2008-11-01 Michael Turton 2008
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In the late 1990s, scientists investigated the phenomenon of longan trees producing fruits totally out of season.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
johnmperry commented on the word longan
= "dragon eyes" in Chinese
July 14, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word longan
"Long nhãn" in Vietnamese - literally "dragon's eyes". Here's a mouthfeely Vietnamese riddle, courtesy of Wikipedia:
"Da cóc mà b�?c bột l�?c, bột l�?c mà b�?c hòn than. (literally: Toad's skin covers tapioca flour, tapioca flour covers coal stone)". Toad's skin is the longan's skin; tapioca flour is the clear white longan flesh, and coal stone refers to the large black seed so common to Sapindaceae.
October 30, 2009