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lungen

lungen

9.9
A tree from Southeast Asia and Australia that has sweet fruit like lychee
  • noun
  • Australian
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  • Lungen trees are often cultivated for their delicious, lychee-like fruit.

Examples

  • At the local market, I found ripe lungen that tasted just like lychee.

  • The market stall was selling fresh lungen alongside other tropical fruits.

  • She tasted a lungen for the first time on her trip to Malaysia.

  • I love the taste of lungen fruit.

  • Have you ever tried lungen?

  • Lungen trees are often cultivated for their delicious, lychee-like fruit.

  • During our vacation, we enjoyed fresh lungen picked straight from the tree.

Surface Forms

lungen singular
lungens plural

Etymology

Lungen comes from a Chinese name also seen as longan, which means 'dragon eye' because the white fruit looks like a round eye inside its brown shell; that's why lungen is a sweet, lychee-like fruit and the name helps you remember its look and taste.