Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Variant of litchi.
Wiktionary
- n. The Chinese tropical fruit tree Litchi chinensis, of the soapberry family.
- n. That tree's bright red oval fruit with a single stone surrounded by a fleshy white aril.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) See litchi.
WordNet 3.0
- n. Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried
Etymologies
- From Cantonese. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Another fruit of Asian origin, lychee is a member of the soapberry family.”
Exotic summer refreshment: a guide to Mexico's tropical fruit
“Well, a lychee is a rare sub-tropical fruit originating in South China where the lychee is very important in their culture and is famed as "the King of Fruits".”
“This area is dominated by great clumps of timber bamboo towering 50 feet or more in height next to a grove of Asian fruits such as lychee, rambutan and star fruit.”
“Lychee Pork 荔枝肉 The "lychee" in this dish is actually pork.”
“In Hong Kong, there are specialty cocktails like the Ning sling, a brew of mandarin orange vodka, lychee liqueur, mint leaves, and passion fruit.”
“If you enjoy the Arctic chill, there is the Bermuda Triangle, a "brain freeze" slush with Cacha ç a, coconut and lychee that is a little like sticking your tongue to frozen metal, but a lot more fun.”
“I'll have to take Mr. Turgeman's word that it also boasted notes of beeswax, ginger, rose water, Turkish Delight and lychee nuts.”
“I wanted something where the lychee flavor was really present and something that was of course beautiful.”
“Next add the vanilla, rose water, and lychee water.”
“I finally decided on a lychee butter cake from Dessert First and I planned to top it with a stabilized raspberry whipped cream and possibly fill it with a lychee mousse.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lychee’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
abdominal, absorbent, accelerator, accumulator, acebutolol, acetamide, acetanilide, acetate, acetic acid, acetone, acetous, acetyl and 1171 more...
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CULI - wine-tasting adjectives
In this area of expertise nouns are frequently used as adjectives (almond, bacon, cider, diesel, fennel, fresh-cut hay, wool) or new adjectives are formed (appley, berrylike, citrusy, full-bodied, ...
acetic, acidic, aged, angular, appley, astringent, attractive, austere, berrylike, big, bitter, brawny and 511 more...
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Exotic Fruits
List naming fruits found in foreign markets and lands that are seldom seen or heard of in America.
durian, ababai, cornelian cherry, sloe, ackee, Adam's fig, apple cactus, pitahaya, dragon fruit, pitaya, asam gelugor, tamarind and 347 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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Gesundheit
Words that sound like sneezes
zucchini, zoology, wysiwyg, woodchuck, withhold, wichita, vacuum, twelfth, syzygy, synchronous, swatch, supersede and 120 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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justin's Words
braii, boerewors, lekker, viva, pap, lipodystrophy, lacticacidosis, sharp, chakalaka, defaulter, eish, oof and 256 more...
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new food
feijoa, choi, coffee, lychee, mustard, kale, collards, capers, turon, quinoa, epazote, nutritional yeast and 20 more...
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Honey List
Honey varieties of all sorts. These are "monofloral", meaning the predominant source of nectar was from a single plant species.
"Polyfloral" honey is derived from a variety of nectar ...basswood, gallberry, clover, tupelo, sourwood, alfalfa, huajillo, orange blossom, kiawe, lehua, thistle, sage and 20 more...
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epicurious
pertaining to food and pleasures such!
pandanus, ube, persimmon, lychee, fillet, mochi, savory, papadum, unctuous, aromatic, yeast
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stanton's Words
msg, sushi, taro, lychee, no big deal, the denver nuggets, swamp, aid-the-poor, rural labourer, toothpick, firecracker, clothes rack and 84 more...
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Alphabet Soup
Food for the mind.
lychee, baklava, brine, garbanzo, chick pea, amuse-bouche, tahini, zymurgy, edamame, sauteed, hors d'oeuvres, crudités and 16 more...
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Riboflavin's Words
aquavit, chicken, neuromancer, tits, cephalopod, riboflavin, fuck, mind banana, tasteflex, balrog, cropsy, pod and 45 more...
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Edible
sashimi, tiramisu, quenepa, lychee, dulce de leche, flan, buffalo wings, sorbet, pasteles, sherbet, turducken, mochi and 79 more...
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