longan, lungen, longanberry, Dimocarpus longan, Euphorbia litchi, Nephelium longana
(noun) tree of southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet edible fruit resembling litchi nuts; sometimes placed in genera Euphorbia or Nephelium
Source: WordNet® 3.1
longan (plural longans)
An evergreen tree, Dimocarpus longan, of the Sapindaceae family, native to southern China.
The fruit from the longan tree.
• dragon's eye
Source: Wiktionary
Lon"gan, n. (Bot.)
Definition: A pulpy fruit related to the litchi, and produced by an evergreen East Indian tree (Nephelium Longan).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
