lychee
Collocations
3ADJ.
brown, light, nuts
VERB + LYCHEE
doesn't, honeyed, like
LYCHEE + NOUN
mango
Definitions
noun
The Chinese tropical fruit tree Litchi chinensis, of the soapberry family.
That tree's bright red oval fruit with a single stone surrounded by a fleshy white aril.
No Chinese meal is complete without some succulent dim sims (pork minced with water chestnuts and enclosed in paste), and such sweets as honeyed lychee nuts and honeyed ginger.
A soft pink-red colour, like that of a lychee rind (also called lychee red).
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet
- litchi
- litchee
- lichi
- leechee
- lichee
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
5No Chinese meal is complete without some succulent dim sims (pork minced with water chestnuts and enclosed in paste), and such sweets as honeyed lychee nuts and honeyed ginger.
WiktionarySince Chiro is a cat, he doesn't like lychee.
Tatoeba · #991387A Cantonese-speaking lady fruit seller shouted obliquely that I was something like a "brown lychee."
Tatoeba · #10631780The kind of things I like are lychee and mango.
Tatoeba · #10787061Lychee is a light pink pony with lavender eyes and dark purple mane and tail styled in a similar manner to mulan hair.
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