longan

Other forms of longan

plural

longans·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about longan

What does longan mean?

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".

How many syllables are in longan?

longan has 2 syllables: lon-gan. The stress falls on "lon". In IPA it is /ˈlɑŋɡən/.

What is another word for longan?

Close synonyms include lungen, longanberry, Dimocarpus longan, 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 longan a common word?

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.