Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A South African shrub (Aspalathus linearis) in the pea family, having green needlelike leaves that turn red when oxidized and dried and are widely used to make tea.
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- noun South Africa A bush (Aspalanthus linearis) from which rooibos tea is made.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun South African shrub having flat acuminate leaves and yellow flowers; leaves are aromatic when dried and used to make an herbal tea
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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One of the things about rooibos is that its flavor is naturally a bit sharp, so blends have to take that into account.
Year of the Tiger Tea (Republic of Tea) | Tea Derivations 2010
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One of the things about rooibos is that its flavor is naturally a bit sharp, so blends have to take that into account.
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"The implication of this settlement is that the word rooibos may now be freely used in any product by any distributor whilst the brand name of a product e.g." Annique Rooibos "will still be protected by intellectual property laws."
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"The word rooibos is as South African as the words biltong, braaivleis and rugby," according to John Mann, a representative of rooibos farmers in Wuppertal.
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The company insists that the export of the tea and its by-products under the name rooibos was in direct conflict with its trademark.
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The word rooibos had been registered as a trademark in the
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But I forgot: you can flavour those too, and I can, without hesitation, highly recommend the peach rooibos, which is a delightful concoction, and a coconut white tea, which provides a similar effect to a nice mild orgasm.
Tea and seminar thingies: mariness 2005
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So, bit by bit, the tea in the house had dwindled down to the desperate situation I was in yesterday morning: I had some African rooibos, another kind of rooibos that my wife owned and, because my sister was out of town, I could have a pot of her expensive white tea, mostly because she wasn't there to stop me.
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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So, bit by bit, the tea in the house had dwindled down to the desperate situation I was in yesterday morning: I had some African rooibos, another kind of rooibos that my wife owned and, because my sister was out of town, I could have a pot of her expensive white tea, mostly because she wasn't there to stop me.
A crisis averted 2007
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Limited, Watkins-Burke and Forever Young had signed an agreement that the word "rooibos" had become too generic of nature to be able to be registered as a trademark.
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