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Definition of Tea leaf

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

Definition of Tea leaf

1. Noun. (usually used in the plural) A dried fragment of a leaf of the tea plant used in making the drink tea. ¹

2. Noun. (Cockney rhyming slang) A thief. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tea Leaf

Literary usage of Tea leaf

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Methods of Practical Hygiene by Karl Bernhard Lehmann (1893)
"Ill shows the characteristic representation and the course of the nerves of the tea-leaf; particular weight must be laid upon the arched connection of the ..."

2. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1889)
"The general structure of the tea-leaf presents to the ordinary observer nothing of peculiar importance, but on closer inspection with even the low powers of ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The tea-plant will even live in the open air in the south of England, and withstand some Fio. 3.—Epidermis of Tea-Leaf ..."

4. Foods: Their Composition and Analysis: A Manual for the Use of Analytical by Alexander Wynter Blyth (1896)
"Structure of the tea leaf.—The border is serrated nearly, though not quite, up to the stalk (see fig, 40). The primary veins run out from the midrib almost ..."

5. Review of Reviews and World's Work by Albert Shaw (1906)
"TREATING THE tea leaf. BY MACHINERY. Let us turn now to the problems of the factory. ... Until recently tea leaf to be made into green ..."

6. The Trade and Administration of the Chinese Empire by Hosea Ballou Morse, Francis Lister Hawks Pott, A. T. Piry (1908)
"... there is a istinct falling on in the proportion of tea leaf to brick tea, made of refuse leaf,dust, and stalks, as shown in the following table :— This ..."

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