Chinese tree cultivated especially in Philippines and India for its edible fruit; sometimes placed in genus Nephelium
source: WordNet 3.0
Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried
source: WordNet 3.0
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 pulp somewhat resembles a raisin in color and form.
source: Webster 1913
A genus of East Indian sapindaceous trees consisting of a single species (Litchi Chinensis, syn. Nephelium Litchi) which bears the litchi nut.
