Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Chinese fruit, the product of the tree Litchi Chinensis (Nephelium Litchi).
- noun Kobus lichi (leche), one of the larger antelopes of South Central Africa: related to the waterbuck, but with shorter, more recurved horns. See
kob .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) See
litchi .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling 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
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And so it goes with the following fruit trees; I will not try to give you all the figures: mango, guanabana, lichi, (? lemon), avocado,
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Orient, the lichi, ginko and water chestnut, and in Italy and India the varieties of the pine nut are used to considerable extent.
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Shortly she became possessed of a bewildering collection consisting variously of large glass marbles with a twist of coloured glass inside; two or three lichi nuts, then a curiosity; a dried gull's wing; several exploded shotgun shells; and a
The Adventures of Bobby Orde Stewart Edward White 1909
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It had become quite dark, the thunder was continually pealing, the lightning gleaming flash after flash, and every now and then sudden gusts of wind would get hold of the big _lichi_ tree by the neck and give its shaggy top a thorough shaking.
Glimpses of Bengal Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore 1901
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This is a Dutch lugger from Samarcand, laden with raisins and fig-paste and lichi nuts and cream dates.
The Merryweathers Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896
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a lieutenant. alibambang: A leguminous plant whose acid leaves are used in cooking. alpay: A variety of nephelium, similar but inferior to the Chinese lichi. among: Term used by the natives in addressing a priest, especially
The Social Cancer Jos�� Rizal 1878
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He find out who blave was who chop young offlicer head, and give him lichi. "
Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser George Manville Fenn 1870
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