龍眼英文係咩??

The Longan (Simplified Chinese: 龙眼; Traditional Chinese: 龍眼; pinyin: lóngyǎn; Cantonese long-ngan; Vietnamese long nhãn - literally "dragon eye") is an evergreen tree native to Southeast Asia from southern China south to Indonesia. It is also called guiyuan (桂圆) in Chinese and lengkeng in Indonesia.
The fruit is edible, and is often used in East Asian soups, snacks, desserts, and sweet-and-sour foods. They are round with a thin, brown-coloured inedible shell. The flesh of the fruit, which surrounds a big, black seed, is white, soft, and juicy.
Longans and lychees bear fruit at around the same time of the year. Dried longan (Chinese: 圓肉; pinyin: yuánròu; literally "round meat") are often used in Chinese food therapy and herbal medicine. In contrast with the fresh fruit, the flesh of dried longans is dark brown to almost black.
龍眼，又稱桂圓、亞荔枝、燕卵，為中國南方水果，多產於兩廣地區。與荔枝、香蕉、菠蘿同為華南四大珍果。
其樹為大喬木，高5－10米。葉互生，為偶數羽狀複葉，長橢圓形，長6－10厘米，寬2-4厘米，基部傾斜。開白花，成實於初秋。其實纍纍而墜，外形圓滾，如彈丸卻略小於荔枝，皮青褐色，革質而脆，果肉味甜可吃。去皮則剔透晶瑩偏漿白，隱約可見內里紅黑色果核，極似眼珠，故以「龍眼」名之。

學名: Dimocarpus longan

龍眼，又稱桂圓、亞荔枝、燕卵，為中國南方水果，多產於兩廣地區。與荔枝、香蕉、菠蘿同為華南四大珍果。

其樹為大喬木，高5－10米。葉互生，為偶數羽狀複葉，長橢圓形，長6－10厘米，寬2-4厘米，基部傾斜。開白花，成實於初秋。其實纍纍而墜，外形圓滾，如彈丸卻略小於荔枝，皮青褐色，革質而脆，果肉味甜可吃。去皮則剔透晶瑩偏漿白，隱約可見內里紅黑色果核，極似眼珠，故以「龍眼」名之。

龍眼為栽培果樹，主產於中國四川、雲南、廣西、廣東、福建等華南諸省以及台灣等地。

Longan Closely allied to the glamorous lychee, in the family Sapindaceae, the longan, or lungan, also known as dragon's eye or eyeball, and as mamoncillo chino in Cuba, has been referred to as the "little brother of the lychee", or li-chihnu, "slave of the lychee". Botanically, it is placed in a separate genus, and is currently designated Dimocarpus longan Lour. (syns. Euphoria longan Steud.; E. longana Lam.; Nephelium longana Cambess.). According to the esteemed scholar, Prof. G. Weidman Groff, the longan is less important to the Chinese as an edible fruit, more widely used than the lychee in Oriental medicine. The flesh (aril) is mucilaginous, whitish, translucent, somewhat musky, sweet, but not as sweet as that of the lychee and with less "bouquet". The seed is round, jet-black, shining, with a circular white spot at the base, giving it the aspect of an eye.


Longans are much eaten fresh, out-of-hand, but some have maintained that the fruit is improved by cooking. In China, the majority are canned in sirup or dried. The canned fruits were regularly shipped from Shanghai to the United States in the past. Today, they are exported from Hong Kong and Taiwan.

For drying, the fruits are first heated to shrink the flesh and facilitate peeling of the rind. Then the seeds are removed and the flesh dried over a slow fire. The dried product is black, leathery and smoky in flavor and is mainly used to prepare an infusion drunk for refreshment.

A liqueur is made by macerating the longan flesh in alcohol.

Longan

中國的一種物品，可食用

2007-01-26 07:00:10 補充：
上面答題者的答案不對。只是龍眼的普通話羅馬拼音。

龍眼 = long yan

http://hk.dictionary.yahoo.com/search.html?q=1&s=%C0s%B2%B4&Submit=+%ACd%A6r+

2007-01-26 08:18:34 補充：
sorry a mistake in typing, should be LONGAN....