bo·hea (b -h  )n. A black Chinese tea, originally the choicest grade but later an inferior variety. [After the Fujian pronunciation of Chinese (Mandarin) w  yí (sh n), the Wuyi mountain range on the border of Jiangxi and Fujian provinces.] |
bohea [bəʊˈhiː]
n
(Cookery) a black Chinese tea, once regarded as the choicest, but now as an inferior grade
[from Chinese (Fukien dialect) bu-i, from Mandarin Chinese Wu-i Shan range of hills on which this tea was grown]
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