noun (n)

• Chinese tree cultivated especially in Philippines and India for its edible fruit; sometimes placed in genus Nephelium(noun.plant)

  Synonym:
  lichee, litchi chinensis, litchi tree, nephelium litchi
  

  source: wordnet30
• Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried(noun.food)

  Synonym:
  leechee, lichee, lichi, litchee, litchi nut, lychee
  

  source: wordnet30
• 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.(noun)

  source: webster1913
• A genus of East Indian sapindaceous trees consisting of a single species (Litchi Chinensis, syn. Nephelium Litchi) which bears the litchi nut.(noun)

  source: webster1913