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n. - Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed.

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Usage examples (5)
  • Here I have a litchee tree, I have tons of lemon grass (te de lemon) which is very comon here but used differently.
  • If the red paper lampshade above the blackboard were to throw light, eternally, on the specials of the day: guava juice, litchee juice, mango lassi, pakori jaljeera,...
  • (Confusingly, reishi is also an alternative name for litchi or litchee fruit in Japan, especially in Okinawa.)
  • For 2008, the wine bursts with notes of honeydew melon, mango and litchee, with more subtle hints of straw, dried thyme, peach and tangerine; a few minutes in the glass...
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