Even people who never drink it and have trouble pronouncing it ( it's geh-VOORTZ-trah-meen-er ) can pick out its unmistakable, almost dizzying aroma of litchi nuts and roses.
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Lured by retail prices of $ 3 to $ 8 a pound, smugglers bring in Asian litchi nuts through Canada, said Peter Grosser, who supervises imports at the Agriculture Department's Plant Protection and Quarantine division.
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A federal court in New York had indicted Liu for organizing a 168-kilogram ( 370-pound ) heroin shipment, concealed in a shipment of canned litchi nuts, which was seized in New Orleans in 1993.
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This is where divine inspiration comes in : cinnamon, pineapple, licorice, coriander, litchi nut, coffee, strawberry _ whatever delights the senses, sometimes in natural flavorings but usually ( and more economically ) in artificial flavors.
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"Lychee " is also a common variant spelling, and " litchi nut " often refers to the dried version of the fruit commonly sold in Chinese groceries, alongside tea soaked in litchi juice, honey from litchi blossoms and litchi-flavored soda.
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Ripe red fruit and scarlet seat cushions on the Gustavian-style dining chairs transform an otherwise quiet green-and-white dining room for the holidays . On the antique brass-edged mahogany dining table, a handblown Murano glass bowl holds pears, apples, pomegranates, crab apples and litchi nuts in countless shades of crimson; a single apple marks each place setting.
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"Nothing beats the perfumed lusciousness of a litchi right off the tree, " said Noble Hendrix, a former surgeon who fell in love with litchi nuts and is now a leading grower of the fruit, in Homestead, Fla . " But we provide the next best thing by picking in the morning and flying the fruit to New York that afternoon, so it's on sale the next day ."
