🍒 A sweet fruit 🌳 A fruit tree

lychee

1 5.9

A tree that keeps its leaves and produces edible fruit in warm climates

noun
/ˈliːtʃi/

: árbol de lichi

"From running a lychee repository for more than a decade, we've learned a lot of secrets about how to grow this crop," says Zee.
lychee tree

Examples

The village elders met met under lychee tree to put a value on Payara Begum's grotesquely ruined face.
The market on Saturday features a variety of tropical fruits, including lychee and mangosteen.
In summer, I love to eat fresh lychee because of its sweet flavor and juicy texture.
She prepared a refreshing dessert with chopped lychee, coconut milk, and a sprinkle of mint.

Synonyms

lichee

vslychee

Archaic

1 8.1

A tropical evergreen tree that makes sweet red fruits

focuses more on aroma and general cultivation across Asia

litchi tree

vslychee

1 7.0

A tropical tree that grows sweet fruit with rough red skin

is native to China and cultivated widely throughout Asia

Litchi chinensis

vslychee

Specialized

7.0

A tropical tree that produces sweet oval fruits with rough red skin called lychee

is the general common term used across Asia for the same tree

Nephelium litchi

vslychee

Specialized

9.8

A tropical tree that grows lychee fruit

is the everyday name seen in markets and speech

Surface Forms

lychee singular

lychees plural

Etymology

Lychee comes from the Cantonese name lai-chi and the Mandarin name lìzhī, both heard as 'lee-chee' by English speakers. That's why lychee can also mean the evergreen tree that produces the same sweet fruit.