black tea

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   fermented tea leaves

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Questions about black tea

What does black tea mean?

black tea means "fermented tea leaves".

Is black tea a common word?

black tea is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.