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Definition of Green tea
1. Noun. Tea leaves that have been steamed and dried without fermenting.
Definition of Green tea
1. Noun. Leaves of the tea plant which are treated with steam or roasted to denature the enzymes that cause the leaves to darken and change taste. (Without this step they would become oolong tea or black tea). ¹
2. Noun. A beverage brewed from green tea leaves. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Green Tea
Literary usage of Green tea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Things Chinese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with China by James Dyer Ball (1893)
"Though green tea, ie, natural green tea, may be, and is, produced, the danger of
fermentation on the voyage, and its unmarketable state if fired ..."
2. Philosophical Magazine (1805)
"This is seldom done, because it is seldom worth doing, green tea being generally
the dearest: moreover, green tea does not make so good bohea as bohea does ..."
3. American Agriculturist (1848)
"Great was my surprise to find all the plants on the tea hills near Foo-chow
exactly the same as -those in the green-tea districts of the north. ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"green tea.— In the manufacture of green tea the freshly plucked leaves are thrown
directly into a roasting pan at a temperature of 250° and are kept tossing ..."
5. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1862)
"In the green tea districts of the north—I allude more particularly to the ...
All the plants in the green tea country near Ningpo, on the islands of the ..."
6. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1853)
"Now, as regarded himself, he (Dr. Royle) had adopted the view that the best kinds
of black and green tea were made from different plants, and examinations ..."