black tea

black tea

n.

A dark tea prepared from fresh tea leaves that have been fully fermented before being dried.

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black tea - fermented tea leaves                 tea leaf, tea - dried leaves of the tea shrub; used to make tea; "the store shelves held many different kinds of tea"; "they threw the tea into Boston harbor" congou, congou tea, English breakfast tea, congo - 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