green tea

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   tea leaves that have been steamed and dried without fermenting

   Broadertea

   Narrowerhyson

Questions about green tea

What does green tea mean?

green tea means "tea leaves that have been steamed and dried without fermenting".

Is green tea a common word?

green 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.