Dried litchis, sold all year in Chinese groceries, are often called litchi nuts.
By the way, some things we usually call "nuts" are not, botanically speaking nuts.
Mark Alessi is used to people calling him nuts.
Instead they are learning what is called nuts and bolts.
Others complain that they have been called nuts, cranks or pseudoscientists.
C. S. Lewis thought so too, and you wouldn't call him nuts.
Any large, oily kernels found within a shell and used in food are commonly called nuts.
It has been called "perhaps the finest of all the fruits called nuts.
They call me eccentric; they used to call me nuts.
Many fruits are called nuts, even though biologists would not classify them as such.