langsat
(ˈlæŋsæt)
Also langseh, lansat, etc.
[Malay.]
The edible fruit of Lansium domesticum, a tree of the family Meliaceæ, native to Indonesia and Malaysia; also, the tree itself.
| 1783 W. Marsden Hist. Sumatra 83 Lansai. The tree which bears this fruit is large; the leaves are of a lightish green and somewhat pointed. [1795 tr. C. P. Thunberg's Trav. Europe, Afr. & Asia (ed. 2) II. 276 Boa lansay is the Malay name for the fruit of a tree..which is yet unknown to botanists.] 1839 T. J. Newbold Pol. & Statistical Acct. Straits of Malacca I. ii. 53 In the valley grow various fruit-trees, such as..the langseh. 1869 A. R. Wallace Malay Archipelago I. v. 132 The Dyaks brought us daily heaped-up baskets of Mangustans and Lansats, two of the most delicious of the subacid tropical fruits. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 472/2 The principal fruit trees are the..langsat, rambai, jack-fruit, etc. 1920 W. Popenoe Man. Tropical & Subtropical Fruits xvi. 427 The langsat has not yet become generally cultivated outside of the Asiatic tropics. 1938 Nature 14 May 866/2 Many of the fruits and vegetables..have been but names, if that, to dwellers in the temperate zones so far;..the mangosteen and the langsat are still awaited. 1940 E. J. H. Corner Wayside Trees Malaya I. 463 The Langsat has an oblong fruit (about 1½ × 1{pp}) with thin, pale greyish-buff rind containing much white latex. 1963 J. Kirkup Tropic Temper 115, I had some chicken..followed by sour-sweet langsat fruit. |