lychee
- noun
- C1
- less common
A small round fruit from warm parts of Asia, with a rough pink shell you pull off, a sweet white juicy part inside and one big smooth seed.
The waiter brought us a small bowl of lychees in syrup.
Press your thumbnail into the shell and the lychee peels easily.
Be careful, each lychee hides one large smooth stone inside.
My aunt orders lychee tea with ice whenever we meet.
Common collocations: peel a lychee · fresh lychees · tinned lychees · lychee juice · dried lychee
Part of: Fruit
Forms
- plural
- lychees
- spelling variant
- litchi