Definition of Nephelium longana

1. Noun. Tree of southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet edible fruit resembling litchi nuts; sometimes placed in genera Euphorbia or Nephelium.

Exact synonyms: Dimocarpus Longan, Euphorbia Litchi, Longan, Longanberry, Lungen
Terms within: Dragon's Eye, Longanberry
Generic synonyms: Fruit Tree
Group relationships: Dimocarpus, Genus Dimocarpus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nephelium Longana

Neotropic
Neozoic
Nepal
Nepal trumpet flower
Nepalese
Nepalese monetary unit
Nepalese rupee
Nepali
Nepaulese
Nepenthaceae
Nepeta cataria
Nepeta hederaceae
Nephelium
Nephelium lappaceum
Nephelium litchi
Nephelium longana (current term)
Nephelium mutabile
Nephilim
Nephite
Nephrolepis
Nephrolepis exaltata
Nephrolepis exaltata bostoniensis
Nephrolepis pectinata
Nephrops
Nephrops norvegicus
Nephropsidae
Nephthys
Nephthytis afzelii
Nepidae
Neptune

Literary usage of Nephelium longana

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Joseph Paxton (1849)
"... of the Chinese, is another excellent fruit-bearing shrub ; it is the Euphoria Longana of our botanical catalogues, the Nephelium longana of ..."

2. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1895)
"Nephelium longana, Camb. Cultivated and also truly wild; Oldham, Henry. 192. Acer oblongum, Wall. South Cape; Henry 1257. 198. ..."

3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"(Nephelium longana, Cambess.). Tree, 30-40 ft., with gray bark: Ivs. scattered: Ifts. opposite or alternate, elliptic to ovate to lanceolate, 2-5 pairs, ..."

4. Origin of Cultivated Plants by Alphonse de Candolle (1886)
"In Cochin- China and in Burmah and at Chittagong the Litchi is only cultivated.4 Longan—Nephelium longana, ..."

5. The Voyage of François Pyrard of Laval to the East Indies, the Maldives, the by François Pyrard (1890)
"Its enemies have less difficulty in expressing their opinions: it is like rotten onions, rotten eggs, carrion, etc. 2 Nephelium longana, the Malay rambutan. ..."

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