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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.
Terms within: Dragon's Eye, Longanberry
Generic synonyms: Fruit Tree
Group relationships: Dimocarpus, Genus Dimocarpus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nephelium Longana
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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