li·tchi

also li·chee (lē′chē)

Variants of lychee.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

litchi

(ˌlaɪˈtʃiː) ,

lichee

lichi

lychee

1. (Plants) a Chinese sapindaceous tree, Litchi chinensis, cultivated for its round edible fruits

2. (Plants) the fruit of this tree, which has a whitish juicy edible aril

[C16: from Cantonese lai chi]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

li•tchi

li•chee

(ˈli tʃi)

n., pl. -tchis or -chees.

1. the fruit of a Chinese tree, Litchi chinensis, of the soapberry family, consisting of a thin, brittle shell enclosing a sweet, jellylike pulp and a single seed.

2. the tree itself.

[1580–90; < New Latin < Chinese lìzhi (lì scallion + zhī branch)]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	litchi - Chinese tree cultivated especially in Philippines and India for its edible fruit; sometimes placed in genus Nephelium lichee, Litchi chinensis, litchi tree, Nephelium litchi leechee, lichi, litchee, litchi nut, lychee, litchi, lichee - Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried fruit tree - tree bearing edible fruit genus Litchi - Chinese trees
	2.	litchi - Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried lichi, litchee, litchi nut, lychee, leechee, lichee edible fruit - edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh lichee, litchi, Litchi chinensis, litchi tree, Nephelium litchi - Chinese tree cultivated especially in Philippines and India for its edible fruit; sometimes placed in genus Nephelium

Mentioned in

References in classic literature

As when ALCIDES from OEALIA Crown'd With conquest, felt th' envenom'd robe, and tore Through pain up by the roots THESSALIAN Pines, And LICHAS from the top of OETA threw Into th' EUBOIC Sea.

View in context

83,6 und 117,3), erotische Abenteuer mit Lichas und Tryphaena (Sat.

Petronsupplemente von 1585 bis 2005: Eine Erganzungsgeschichte der Satyrica

The young counter-tenor Rupert Enticknap (Lichas) is a great prospect, sweet-toned and mellifluous.

REVIEWS

Lichas (1795-1815) or Theseus Fighting the Centaur (1804-1819), both of

Enrico Toti: a new man for Italy's mutilated victory

Along with baritone Sumner Thompson s Hercules, the cast also included tenor Colin Baker as his son, Hyllus, soprano Nathalie Paulin as the captive Princess Iole, niezzzo Laura Pudwell (replacing an indisposed Mireille Lebel) as the herald Lichas and baritone David Roth as Priest of Jupiter.

Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra

'Look at the tensions.' At the far end of the bar, Hercules is hurling his servant Lichas to the ground in a bronze made after a model by Giambologna (Fig.

Collectors & collecting: Robert H. Smith and his wife, Clarice, have formed one of the world's finest private collections of renaissance bronzes. At home in Washington, DC, he talks to Louise Nicholson about his decision to bequeath the collection to the National Gallery of Art

780, [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] is used to describe Lichas' being fatally flung against a rock by Herakles.

Understanding ancient combatives: how did dioxippus take Coragus down?

Dona Lichas Island: Modern Colonialism in Puerto Rico.

U.S. Congress and the invisibility of coloniality: the case of Puerto Rico's political status revisited

At one point, Lichas, the attendant of Heracles, the unexpected guest who has unwittingly caused so much trouble in this house of mourning, enacts the labours of his master, one of which involves a monstrous bull, here symbolic of masculine power and sexual potency:

Ted Hughes and the minotaur complex

Let me lodge Lichas on the horns o' the moon, And with these hands that grasp'd the heaviest club, Subdue my worthiest self....

Antony's "secret house of death": suicide and sovereignty in Antony and Cleopatra