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Tea leaf   /ti lif/   Listen
Tea leaf

noun
1.
Dried leaves of the tea shrub; used to make tea.  Synonym: tea.  "They threw the tea into Boston harbor"






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"Tea leaf" Quotes from Famous Books



... up with their cues hitcht to a canal bote snakin' it along at the rate of a mile inside of 2 hours. "G'lang! Tea leaf." ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 18, July 30, 1870 • Various

... None has been exported. If it were not a remarkably good article the foreign would be preferred, as we all know a domestic article has a world of prejudice to overcome at first. I shall watch the Ceylon tea question with interest, and hope that at some not distant day the production of tea leaf may rival ...
— Round the World • Andrew Carnegie



Words linked to "Tea leaf" :   black tea, herb, oolong, Camellia sinensis, green tea, tea bag



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