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Encyclopedia > Tea (disambiguation)

Tea can have different meanings depending on the context:

TEA is an abbreviation for: A hot cup of tea A tea bush. ... Caffeine molecular structure Caffeine, also known as trimethylxanthine, coffeine, theine, mateine, guaranine, methyltheobromine and 1,3,7-trimethylxanthine, is a xanthine alkaloid found naturally in such foods as coffee beans, tea, kola nuts, Yerba mate, guarana berries, and (in small amounts) cacao beans. ... The word drink is primarily a verb, meaning to ingest liquids, see Drinking. ... Bubble tea Bubble tea, pearl milk tea (Chinese: 珍珠奶茶; pinyin: zhēnzhū nǎichá), or boba milk tea (波霸奶茶; bōbà nǎichá) is a tea beverage mixture with milk. ... The varieties of Chinese Tea are extensive with many different types grown during the Chinese Dynasties. ... A herbal tea, tisane, or ptisan is a herbal infusion other than that made with real (white, yellow, black, oolong, or green) tea (Camellia sinensis). ... Tea (a meal, as opposed to the beverage), has different meanings according to country. ... Beatnik redirects here. ... Cannabis is a plant also known as Cannabis sativa, hemp, or marijuana. ... Téa is a female name. ... Look up abbreviation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Abbreviation (from Latin brevis short) is strictly a shortening, but more particularly, an abbreviation is a letter or group of letters, taken from a word or words, and employed to represent them for the sake of brevity. ...


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Tea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (5037 words)
Tea is a caffeine -containing beverage, an infusion made by steeping the dried leaves or buds of the shrub Camellia sinensis in hot water for a few minutes.
Tea is grown primarily in China, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Iran, Republic of Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Japan, Indonesia, Nepal, Australia, Argentina, and Kenya.
The Boston Tea Party was an act of uprising in which Boston residents destroyed crates of British tea in 1773, in protest against the tax on tea.
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