how to pronounce lychee

/ˈlaɪ.tʃiː/

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lychee is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of lychee in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… trout and lychee simple recipe to the …”

meanings of lychee

noun:

The Chinese tropical fruit tree Litchi chinensis, of the soapberry family.
A soft pink-red colour, like that of a lychee rind (also called lychee red).
That tree's bright red oval fruit with a single stone surrounded by a fleshy white aril.

lychee frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word lychee occurs in english on average 0.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics lychee can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that lychee can be often used in the following areas:

1) food and health;