OOLONG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oolong mean? 

• OOLONG (noun)
  The noun OOLONG has 1 sense:

1. Chinese tea leaves that have been partially fermented before being dried

  Familiarity information: OOLONG used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OOLONG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Chinese tea leaves that have been partially fermented before being dried

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("oolong" is a kind of...):

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

 Context examples 

White tea, Green, oolong and black tea are all harvested from this species, but are processed to attain different levels of oxidation.

(Camellia sinensis, NCI Thesaurus)