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Definition of Lanseh
1. Noun. East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit.
Generic synonyms: Edible Fruit
Group relationships: Langsat, Langset, Lanseh Tree, Lansium Domesticum
Definition of Lanseh
1. n. The small, whitish brown fruit of an East Indian tree (Lansium domesticum). It has a fleshy pulp, with an agreeable subacid taste.
Definition of Lanseh
1. Noun. The small, whitish-brown fruit of an East Indian tree, with fleshy pulp and subacid taste. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Lanseh
1. The small, whitish brown fruit of an East Indian tree (Lansium domesticum). It has a fleshy pulp, with an agreeable subacid taste. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lanseh
Literary usage of Lanseh
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"L. domesticum (known as La D sa, Langsat, lanseh, Ayer-Ayer, or Be jet I ал, In
the different languages of the East Indies; has a fruit as large as a ..."
2. The Annals of Philosophy by Richard Phillips, E W Brayley (1823)
"The Ayer Ayer so nearly resembles the lanseh in most particulars, that I hesitate
to rank it as a distinct species, and content myself with mentioning it as ..."
3. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"The lanseh forms a moderate-sized tree with tomentose branches. Leaves alternate,
pinnate; leaflets 7 to 9, alternate, short-pedicelled, elliptic-oblong, ..."
4. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Joseph Paxton (1849)
"... and of every organic substance which constitutes manure. ON GROWING THE lanseh
AND ... THE lanseh, or Langsat of the Malayans and natives of Java, ..."
5. The Best Plays by Burns Mantle, Louis Kronenberger (1899)
"lanseh—You are not serious? ORDEN—I am serious. LANSER—This can't be done, you
know it. This is nonsense. ORDEN—I know it. And what you ask can't be done. ..."
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