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Definition of Labrador tea
1. Noun. Evergreen shrub of eastern North America having white or creamy bell-shaped flowers and dark green hairy leaves used for tea during American Revolution.
Group relationships: Genus Ledum, Ledum
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Labrador Tea
Literary usage of Labrador tea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. How to Know the Wild Flowers: A Guide to the Names, Haunts, and Habits of by Frances Theodora Parsons, Marion Satterlee (1900)
"labrador tea. [PL XXV Ledum latifolium. Heath Family. An erect shrub from one to
three feet high. Leaves.—Thickly clothed beneath with a rusty wool; ..."
2. The Chemistry of Common Life by James Finlay Weir Johnston (1859)
"labrador tea used in North America.—Abyssinian tea or chaat.—Tasmanian teas.—Faham
tea.—Substitutes for Chinese tea and for mate'. ..."
3. The Canadas in 1841 by Richard Henry Bonnycastle (1841)
"... the Quebec Transactions—Curious Effects of Mirage—Ball Island—Its Geological
Character—The Seven Islands— Their Products — labrador tea—Magnificent Bay ..."
4. Report on the Exploration of the Country Between Lake Superior and the Red by Canada Provincial Secretary's Office, Henry Youle Hind, George Gladman (1858)
"... labrador tea Plant, 69 — Ce»l Wells in Moss, 69 — Good Road on the Great Dog,
60 — Section of Great Dog Portage, 60. Thunder Bay, position and extent. ..."
5. Manual of Botany for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1836)
"... A. (1) (labrador-tea. wr J. £.) leaves linear-oblong, folded in at tlie margin,
iron-rust down beneath: stamens mostly 5, equalling or longer than the ..."
6. Mountain Wild Flowers of Canada: A Simple and Popular Guide to the Names and by Julia Wilmotte Henshaw (1906)
"The foliage of the Woolly labrador tea is strictly characteristic, for the leaves
are long-shaped, with revolute margins, green and slightly wrinkled on the ..."
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