LYCHEE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lychee mean? 

• LYCHEE (noun)
  The noun LYCHEE has 1 sense:

1. Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried

  Familiarity information: LYCHEE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LYCHEE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

leechee; lichee; lichi; litchee; litchi; litchi nut; lychee

Hypernyms ("lychee" is a kind of...):

edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

Holonyms ("lychee" is a part of...):

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)

 Context examples 

The outbreak was linked to lychee orchard exposures where agrochemicals were routinely used, but not to consumption of lychees.

(Lychee deaths linked to pesticides, not the fruit, SciDev.Net)

In 2015, medical researchers in India held methylene cyclopropyl-glycine (MCPG) — a toxic phytochemical found in the lychee fruit — responsible for outbreaks of AES in India’s Bihar state.

(Lychee deaths linked to pesticides, not the fruit, SciDev.Net)

Pesticides can be one of the contributing factors, says Mohammed Saiful Islam, scientist at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, and lead author of the study, which used a ‘mixed-methods’ approach to identify risk factors for AES and unsound practices around lychee cultivation in Dinajpur.

(Lychee deaths linked to pesticides, not the fruit, SciDev.Net)

Recurrent outbreaks of acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) among children in India and Bangladesh could be down to exposure to agrochemicals used in lychee orchards rather than consumption of the fruit of the Asian lychee tree (Litchi chinensis), according to recent research.

(Lychee deaths linked to pesticides, not the fruit, SciDev.Net)