dimocarpus longan

Questions about dimocarpus longan

What does dimocarpus longan mean?

dimocarpus longan means "tree of southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet edible fruit resembling litchi nuts; sometimes placed in genera Euphorbia or Nephelium".

What is another word for dimocarpus longan?

Close synonyms include longan, lungen, longanberry, Euphorbia litchi, Nephelium longana. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dimocarpus longan a common word?

dimocarpus longan is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.