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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. Chinese tree cultivated especially in Philippines and India for its edible fruit; sometimes placed in genus Nephelium;
[syn: litchi, lichee, litchi tree, Litchi chinensis, Nephelium litchi]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Litchi \Li"tchi`\ (l[=e]"ch[=e]`), n. (Bot.) The fruit of a tree native to China (Nephelium Litchi). It is nutlike, having a rough but tender shell, containing an aromatic pulp, and a single large seed. In the dried fruit which is exported the pulp somewhat resembles a raisin in color and form. [Written also lichi, and lychee.] [1913 Webster] 2. (Bot.) A genus of East Indian sapindaceous trees consisting of a single species (Litchi Chinensis, syn. Nephelium Litchi) which bears the litchi nut. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Nephelium litchi n 1: Chinese tree cultivated especially in Philippines and India for its edible fruit; sometimes placed in genus Nephelium [syn: litchi, lichee, litchi tree, Litchi chinensis, Nephelium litchi]