black tea

noun

a tea that has been allowed to wither and ferment under controlled conditions before being subjected to a heating process that stops fermentation and turns the leaves black.

Compare green tea.

Origin of black tea

First recorded in 1780–90

Words nearby black tea

black swan, blacktail, black-tailed deer, black tar heroin, black taxi, black tea, blackthorn, black tie, blacktip shark, blacktongue, blacktop

Example sentences from the Web for black tea

In the black-tea districts, as in the green, large quantities of young plants are yearly raised from seeds.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 442|Various
There is not so much care taken in sorting the produce of the black-tea tree.
Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat|Edmund Roberts
Fu-chow was the black-tea port of China at that time, and it had been opened just two years before.
My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands|George Francis Train

单词	black tea
释义	black tea noun a tea that has been allowed to wither and ferment under controlled conditions before being subjected to a heating process that stops fermentation and turns the leaves black. Compare green tea. Origin of black tea First recorded in 1780–90 Words nearby black tea black swan, blacktail, black-tailed deer, black tar heroin, black taxi, black tea, blackthorn, black tie, blacktip shark, blacktongue, blacktop Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for black tea In the black-tea districts, as in the green, large quantities of young plants are yearly raised from seeds. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 442\|Various There is not so much care taken in sorting the produce of the black-tea tree. Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat\|Edmund Roberts Fu-chow was the black-tea port of China at that time, and it had been opened just two years before. My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands\|George Francis Train
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