Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
lichi .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A Chinese tree (
Litchi chinensis ) cultivated especially in the Philippines and India for its edible fruit, the litchi nut; sometimes placed in the genus Nephelium. - noun A Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
lychee .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried
- noun Chinese tree cultivated especially in Philippines and India for its edible fruit; sometimes placed in genus Nephelium
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Examples
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My newly planted lichee, fig, and olive thank the rain gods, and so do I. Tomorrow we'll see the road damage, bound to be severe .... the unpaved roads, I mean.
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My newly planted lichee, fig, and olive thank the rain gods, and so do I. Tomorrow we'll see the road damage, bound to be severe .... the unpaved roads, I mean.
Rain 2009
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My newly planted lichee, fig, and olive thank the rain gods, and so do I. Tomorrow we'll see the road damage, bound to be severe .... the unpaved roads, I mean.
Rain 2009
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My newly planted lichee, fig, and olive thank the rain gods, and so do I. Tomorrow we'll see the road damage, bound to be severe .... the unpaved roads, I mean.
Rain 2009
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My newly planted lichee, fig, and olive thank the rain gods, and so do I. Tomorrow we'll see the road damage, bound to be severe .... the unpaved roads, I mean.
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My newly planted lichee, fig, and olive thank the rain gods, and so do I. Tomorrow we'll see the road damage, bound to be severe .... the unpaved roads, I mean.
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The power was out for quite awhile, so we were comped our dinner plus a lot of wine (a bottle plus) and Enrique brought three bowls of dessert (vanilla ice cream, coconut ice cream, and lichee nut sorbet) on top of that.
Some wine with that blackout? Emma Goldman 2006
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Most distressfully (but, my dear, how successfully!) to wail he did, his locks of a lucan tinge, quickrich, ripely rippling, unfilleted, those lashbetasselled lids on the verge of closing time, whiles ouze of his sidewiseopen mouth the breath of him, evenso languishing as the princeliest treble treacle or lichee chewchow purse could buy.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Dowager lady Chia observed that Pao-yü was clad in a deep-red felt fringed overcoat, with woollen lichee-coloured archery-sleeves and with an edging of dark green glossy satin, embroidered with gold rings.
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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Chia Cheng was already aware that it was a lichee, but he designedly made a few guesses at random, and was fined several things; but he subsequently gave, at length, the right answer, and also obtained a present from her ladyship.
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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