BLACK TEA

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 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)

Sense 1

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)

 Context examples 

A phenolic antioxidant found in a number of plants such as green and black tea.

(Epigallocatechin Gallate, NCI Thesaurus)

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)

Black tea may reduce the risk of cancer, heart diseases, infectious diseases, and degenerative diseases.

(Black Tea, NCI Thesaurus)

Black tea is an infusion of dried leaves from plants of the Theaceae family.

(Black Tea, NCI Thesaurus)

Black teas also contain other phytochemicals such as flavonoid and flavonoid-related compounds with strong antioxidant effects.

(Black Tea, NCI Thesaurus)