tea leaf

Questions about tea leaf

What does tea leaf mean?

tea leaf means "dried leaves of the tea shrub; used to make tea".

What is another word for tea leaf?

Close synonyms include tea. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tea leaf a common word?

tea leaf 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.