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longanberry

9.9

A small round sweet fruit like a lychee with soft clear flesh and thin brown shell

noun

Indian

: longan

The sweet, fragrant flavor of longanberries makes them a popular addition to Asian desserts.

Examples

I had never tasted a longanberry before my trip to Thailand, but I loved their delicate sweetness.
She brought a bag of fresh longanberries from the market to share with her family.
I love eating longanberries during summer.
Have you ever tried a longanberry?
The sweet, fragrant flavor of longanberries makes them a popular addition to Asian desserts.
She brought a bag of fresh longanberries from the market to share with her family.
I had never tasted a longanberry before my trip to Thailand, but I loved their delicate sweetness.

Synonyms

dragon's eye

vslonganberry

8.4

A small sweet Asian fruit like a lychee with clear flesh also called longan

has identical meaning but uses a different name

How Sweet

mango

34 1.0

longanberry

Indian

9.9

lychee

2 4.7

cherry

141 1.0

cranberry

61 1.4

Surface Forms

longanberry singular

longanberries plural

Morphology

longanberry = longan + berry (transparent) = longan + berry

Formed by straightforward compounding of the fruit name 'longan' and 'berry', so the meaning 'a small berry-like longan fruit' is directly inferable.

Etymology

Longanberry comes from the Chinese name longan, which means 'dragon eye' because the fruit's white, shiny flesh looks like an eye when you open its brown shell. The English 'berry' part simply tells you it is a small, sweet fruit.