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n. - Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; Chinese tree cultivated especially in Philippines and India for its edible fruit.

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  • Shaohsing wine that has been made in China for 6,000 years, and a liqueur made from lichee fruit.
  • North Vietnamese cooking smells-green chili, garlic, lichee and durians, spoiled river prawns'made David Hudson suddenly gag.
  • We gazed curiously at the dangling pieces of dried fish, strings of sausage-like meat, unfamiliar vegetables, lichee nuts and sticks of green sugar cane.
  • The first was somewhat plump in figure and of medium height; her cheeks had a congealed appearance, like a fresh lichee; her nose was glossy like goose fat.
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