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- adjective Resembling
tea (the drink or plant) or some aspect of it.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Many of the neighbors told stories about things they had found in the bog, and one local family recalled pulling the soft skeleton of an Irish elk from the tealike waters.
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Then she ran around madly, until we decided it was late, and we headed home, via Oxfam, where I bought some loose chamomile tea that is, just plain old dried chamomile flowers, nothing tealike about it.
Today was rather better lnc 2005
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He broke off another chunk of bread and dipped the end into the sauce, then took a sip of the cool tealike drink that was also new, and less bitter than the hot bark-and-root tea of winter had been.
Fall of Angels Modesitt, L. E. 1996
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No one spoke to Renna during the long march into the mountains—in fact, no one spoke at all, even during the brief periods when they stopped to attend to bodily functions and sip a bitter tealike substance.
Sanctuary John Vornholt 1992
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No one spoke to Renna during the long march into the mountains—in fact, no one spoke at all, even during the brief periods when they stopped to attend to bodily functions and sip a bitter tealike substance.
Sanctuary John Vornholt 1992
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No one spoke to Renna during the long march into the mountains—in fact, no one spoke at all, even during the brief periods when they stopped to attend to bodily functions and sip a bitter tealike substance.
Sanctuary John Vornholt 1992
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It is a deeply floral, warm, rich, and highly diffusive odor, with a peculiar honeylike sweetness and a waxy-herbaceous, oily-fruity and tealike.
Museum Blogs 2010
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The lucuma ice cream, which we tried with the Tahitian vanilla, is standard fare in Peru but captivated us with its aromatic, tealike smokiness.
NYT > Home Page By DAVID M. HALBFINGER 2010
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Nonalcoholic drinks include Boylan's sodas, Honest Teas and Guayakí maté, a tealike beverage.
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Red-leg partridge, among the many game birds used here, came steeped in a dark, tealike broth that popped with sweet onions and fresh green peas.
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