BLACK TEA

Pronunciation (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does black tea mean? 

• BLACK TEA (noun)
  The noun BLACK TEA has 1 sense:

1. fermented tea leaves

  Familiarity information: BLACK TEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLACK TEA (noun)

Meaning:

Fermented tea leaves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("black tea" is a kind of...):

tea; tea leaf (dried leaves of the tea shrub; used to make tea)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "black tea"):

congo; congou; congou tea; English breakfast tea (black tea grown in China)

Darjeeling (a fine variety of black tea grown in northern India)

orange pekoe; pekoe (a superior grade of black tea; grown in India and Sri Lanka and Java)

soochong; souchong (a fine quality of black tea native to China)