Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See lichi.

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  • noun Alternative form of lychee.

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  • noun Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried

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Examples

  • I assumed when I came through there that the nuts were common throughout the country, but few Mexicans I have talked to since then have any familiarity with leechee nuts.

    Strange Fruit 2004

  • The oddest thing I've seen in Mexico grows in a small section east and a little south of Tampico -- leechee nuts.

    Strange Fruit 2004

  • Worcestershire the delicious leechee, almost the only fruit of Bengal which deserves to be regretted even amidst the plenty of Covent Garden.

    Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

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