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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A grade of Chinese black tea, obtained from the fifth and largest leaf gathered from a shoot tip of a tea plant.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A grade of black tea produced in China, being the third picking during the season.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Black tea, of higher grade (finer leaf and less dusty) than the present bohea. Also called English breakfast tea. See tea.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun black tea grown in China

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Amoy (Xiamen) kang hu (te), elaborately prepared (tea), corresponding to Mandarin gōngfu (chá), from gōngfu, worksmanship; see kung fu.]

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