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Meanings of lichee in English
Chinese tree cultivated especially in Philippines and India for its edible fruit; sometimes placed in genus Nephelium.
Synonyms
Examples for "lychee"
Examples for "lychee"
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The Chinese consider the heart-shaped lychee to be a symbol of romance.
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Andrew O'Hagan Clyde stole a lychee and ate it in the shower.
3
I do love a lychee martini but I will drink anything.
4
Instead of canned lychee juice, substitute ¼ cup water and 1 tablespoon granulated sugar.
5
Most drinkers are used to wine with a hint of cherry, nectarine or even lychee.
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This litchi mousse tart is lovely for when you feel that you need something lighter.
2
You will be sure to enjoy this litchi mousse tart as it is full of flavours of litchi combined with the richness of coconut.
3
Rain clouds, dark as the proverbial beloved's hair, sweep across the sky; the litchi tree over his head is dancing in the swift breeze.
4
As decadent white wines go, this one delivers lovely rose petals, and Turkish delight on the nose with subtle litchi (lychee) flavours as a complement.
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Its sweetness comes from the natural sugars that the litchi's are kept in.
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The lichi tree by the tank looked like a smudge of ink on a background a shade less deep.
2
In the 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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At Leechee the Niger was found to be three miles in width.
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"Quoile thought it was a leechee," Lucy says.
Usage of lichee in English
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Jasmine tea, red lichee, chrysanthemum flower, all the best ones.
2
The cups were as dainty as lichee.
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I might try lichee nuts from China.
4
He savored the lichee tea now, the hot Beijing night, the comfortable antique furniture and paintings in the vice director's study.
5
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.
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"Star fruit, lichee nuts, and moon cakes," he said, adding, "Be sure to look for the secret fortune inside.
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The New Yorker, February 2, 1963 P. 26 Talk story about attending a banquet, at the Lichee Tree restaurant, to celebrate Chinese New Year.
Frequent collocations
Lichee through the time