Explanation of Litchi
[litchi;lychee]
A kind of evergreen tree (Litchi chinensis), even-numbered pinnately compound leaves, small flowers, no petals, greenish-white or yellowish, fruits ripe purplish-red, fruits are sweet in taste, nutritious, is China's specialty Detailed Explanation (1). Fruit tree name. Also refers to the fruit of this plant. East Guanhan Ji - Xiong Nu Nan Danyu ":" South Danyu to the court, give the imperial food and orange longan lychee." JIN JI HAN "Southern grass and trees" Volume: "Lychee tree, five or six feet high, such as laurel tree, green leaves puffy, winter and summer Rongmao, green China Zhu Shi, real large as chicken, nuclear yellow and black like ripe lotus, real white as animal, sweet and juicy, like An pomegranate." Tang Du Mu, one of the lines from "Passing by Huaqing Palace": "The consort smiles when riding on the red dust, and no one knows that it is lychee." Song Lu You, "Notes of Lao Xuean," vol. 3: "In the Xuanhe period, the lychee planted under the Boho Hall became fruitful, and the temple of Anhui hand-picked it to give it to Wang Anzhong, the handsome man of Yan." (2). Chrysanthemum. Song Liu Meng "Chrysanthemum spectrum": "Lychee, branch purple, out of Xijing, September in the middle of the opening. Thousands of leaves and purple flowers, leaves rolled into a tube, the size of each other ...... commonly thought of as lychee, because of the shape of the flower is round."
Word Breakdown
Ly explanation Ly ì [Lychee] a. Evergreen trees, fruit spherical, fruit shell has a tumor-like protuberances, ripe purple-red, flesh white translucent, juicy, sweet taste; b. The fruit of this plant. It is also known as "离枝" and "丹荔". Part Head: 艹; Explanation of 枝 枝 ī Stems branching off from the main trunk of a plant: branches. Branches (刵). Bamboo branches. Branches growing out of joints. Branch ke. Branch (a. other problems arising from one thing; b. minor, unimportant). Measurement, in the form of a rod: a pencil. Ancient cognate of "branch", to support, to branch out. Branch í