catha edulis

1. 1.

   a shrub that is cultivated by Arabs for its leaves which are chewed or used to make tea

   Broadershrub

   Part ofCatha

Questions about catha edulis

What does catha edulis mean?

catha edulis means "a shrub that is cultivated by Arabs for its leaves which are chewed or used to make tea".

Is catha edulis a common word?

catha edulis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.