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noun - tree of southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet edible fruit resembling litchi nuts
An Indian evergreen tree (Euphoria longan) having yellowish-brown drupes with white, juicy, edible flesh.
The fruit of this plant.
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| Fruit similar to lychee |
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| Oct 18 2008 The Times - Concise |
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| tree of southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet edible fruit resembling litchi nuts sometimes placed in genera Euphoria or Nephelium |
| a tropical fruit similar to a lychee, with a brown shell and sweet, white flesh around a round, shiny, black seed, or the evergreen tree on which this fruit grows |
| An edible juicy fruit from a plant related to the lychee, cultivated in SE Asia. |
| An Asian evergreen tree (Euphoria longan) having yellowish-brown drupes with white, juicy, edible flesh. |
| The fruit of this plant. |
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| Dimocarpus longan, commonly known as the longan (), is a tropical tree that produces edible fruit. It is one of the better-known tropical members of the soapberry family (Sapindaceae), to which the lychee, rambutan, guarana, korlan, pitomba, Genip and ackee also belong. The fruit of the longan are similar to that of the lychee, but less aromatic in taste. It is native to Southern Asia.The longan (from Cantonese lùhng-ngáahn , literally "dragon eye"), is so named because it resembles an eyeball when its fruit is shelled (the black seed shows through the translucent flesh like a pupil/iris). The seed is small, round and hard, and of an enamel-like, lacquered black. The fully ripened, freshly harvested fruit has a bark-like shell, thin, and firm, making the fruit easy to peel by squeezing the pulp out as if one is "cracking" a sunflower seed. When the shell has more moisture content and is more tender, the fruit becomes less convenient to shell. The tenderness of the shell varies due to e |