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tea | American Dictionary

tea
noun[ C/U ]
us/ti/
the dried and cut leaves of esp. the tea plant, or a drink made by pouring hot water onto these:
[ U ]I’d love a nice cup of hot tea.
[ C ]We have a variety of herbal teas.
Br Tea is also a light meal eaten in the late afternoon or early evening.

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Export crops are cotton, sisal, coffee, tea, tobacco, and pyrethrum.
This work also calculates income elasticities for the various foodstuffs and confirms the luxury nature of tea and sugar.
At the same time, it would provide practical information of value to tea producers.
This group will wait in a kind of desultory silence, with little chatting, before the tea is handed into the room from the back.
Places where the traders could gather and negotiate also grew up - eating-houses, tea shops, tea gardens, playhouses and the like - and a townscape was formed.
But broad effectiveness - an institution's long-term legitimacy - works in concert with its policy agenda as institutions read the tea leaves of public and political change.
Further, preparation and service of tea is not always performed using proper hygienic techniques.
This indicated that the problems of tea somatic embryogenesis could be partially alleviated by genetic transformation with a stress-tolerance gene.
You are right to know about the beneficial properties of chamomile tea in healing children's stomachaches.
It is also more formally known or announced as afternoon tea.
One may drink any of them with tea-bread containing very little sugar or with sugarbread, which has more sugar in it.
He is enjoying not just the film, but also the tea, the chatter, the coming and going of family and guests.
Is high in high tea, high priest, and high season the same word?
By the mid1980s about 1400 ha, equivalent to 70% of the tea area (excluding pruned tea), were partially irrigated during the annual dry seasons.
Ornaments, cooking utensils and consumables were widely purchased, as were coffee, tea and sugar.
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