● litchi ou letchi ou lychee nom masculin (chinois li-chi) Arbre originaire d'Extrême-Orient, cultivé dans les régions tropicales humides pour son fruit et son bois. Fruit du litchi, écailleux, rose, qui se présente en grappes lâches, et dont la graine est entourée d'une pulpe blanche savoureuse. (On consomme le litchi frais ou conservé au sirop.)
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Lychee — Ly chee , n. (Bot.) See {Litchi}. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
lychee — [lē′chē΄] n. LITCHI * * * ly·chee (lēʹchē) n. Variant of litchi. * * * … Universalium
lychee — (pronounced liy chee), the name of a Chinese fruit, is spelt this way rather than lichee or litchi, although these forms are dominant in AmE (and are pronounced lee chee) … Modern English usage
lychee — (also litchi) ► NOUN ▪ a small rounded fruit with sweet white scented flesh, a large stone, and thin rough skin. ORIGIN Chinese … English terms dictionary
lychee — [lē′chē΄] n. LITCHI … English World dictionary
Lychee — taxobox name = Lychee image caption = Lychee branch with ripe fruit regnum = Plantae unranked divisio = Angiosperms unranked classis = Eudicots unranked ordo = Rosids ordo = Sapindales familia = Sapindaceae genus = Litchi genus authority = Sonn.… … Wikipedia
Lychee — Litchi Litchi … Wikipédia en Français
lychee — UK [ˈlaɪtʃiː] / UK [ˈlɪtʃɪ] noun [countable] Word forms lychee : singular lychee plural lychees a small round white fruit from China … English dictionary
lychee — 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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
lychee — or litchi; also lichee noun Etymology: Chinese (Beijing) lìzhī Date: 1588 1. the oval fruit of a Chinese tree (Litchi chinensis) of the soapberry family having a hard scaly reddish outer covering and sweet whitish edible flesh that surrounds a… … New Collegiate Dictionary
Lychee — Litschibaum Litschibaum (Litchi chinensis), Früchte Systematik Unterklasse: Rosenähnliche (Rosidae) … Deutsch Wikipedia
