lichee
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Tomato, eggplant and pepper plants, mango and lichee nut trees are nourished in long rows by painstaking drip irrigation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hanoi itself was very much as I remembered it�a 19th century French colonial city of yellow stucco buildings, scrupulously clean streets lined with lichee, pine and tamarind trees.
From Time Magazine Archive
The moo shu pork came without any pancakes and where are the lichee nuts?
From Time Magazine Archive
When Francie brought a ticket and a dime back and pushed them across the counter, he gave her the wrapped shirt and two lichee nuts in exchange.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
We gazed curiously at the dangling pieces of dried fish, strings of sausage-like meat, unfamiliar vegetables, lichee nuts and sticks of green sugar cane.
From The Lure of San Francisco A Romance Amid Old Landmarks by Gray, Mabel Thayer
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