lon|gan

lon|gan
lon|gan «LONG guhn», noun.
1. a Chinese evergreen tree of the soapberry family, reated to the litchi and bearing a similar but smaller and less palatable fruit.
2. its fruit. Also, lungan.
[< Cantonese lungngan (literally) dragon's eye]

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