green tea
green tea noun: leaves of the tea plant which are treated with steam or roasted to denature the enzymes that cause the leaves to darken and change taste. (Without this step they would become oolong tea or black tea).
Noun
green tea (countable and uncountable, plural green teas)
- Leaves of the tea plant which are treated with steam or roasted to denature the enzymes that cause the leaves to darken and change taste. (Without this step they would become oolong tea or black tea).
- ...paper by Mr. Warrington, on the analysis of tea, in which he states that he has has not only removed the whole of the coloring matter, or glazing, from green tea, but he has been able to analyze the matter removed....1847, editorial staff, “Chemical Analysis of Tea”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 3, Issue 10, page 80
- A beverage brewed from green tea leaves.
Proper noun capitalized: Green Tea
Green Tea
green tea meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
green tea in Hindi
- drink
- हरी चाय harī cāy
- leaves
- हरी चाय harī cāy
green tea in Tamil
- drink
- பசும் தேநீர் pacum tēnīr
- leaves
- பசும் தேநீர் pacum tēnīr
green tea in Marathi
- drink
- हरित चहा harit cahā
green tea in Urdu
- drink
- ہَری چائے harī cāe
- leaves
- ہَری چائے harī cāe
More languagesFewer languages
- green tea in Bengali
- সবুজ চা śobuj ca
- green tea in Malayalam
- ഗ്രീൻ ടീ grīṉ ṭī
- green tea in Punjabi
- قہوہ qahvah, ਕਾਹਵਾ kāhvā
- green tea in Gujarati
- લીલી ચા līlī cā
- green tea in Odia
- ଗ୍ରୀନ ଟି grina ṭi
- green tea in Sinhala
- හරිත තේ harita tē
- green tea in Assamese
- গ্ৰীণ টী
- green tea in Nepali
- हरियो चिया hariyo ciyā
- green tea in Arabic
- شَايْ أَخْضَر šāy ʔaḵḍar
- green tea in Malay
- teh hijau
- green tea in Indonesian
- teh hijau
- green tea in Thai
- ชาเขียว chaa-kǐao
- green tea in Vietnamese
- trà xanh
- green tea in Myanmar
- အကြမ်းရည် a.kram:rany, လက်ဖက်ရည်ကြမ်း lakhpak-ranykram:, ရေနွေးကြမ်း re-nwe:kram:, လက်ဖက်ခြောက် lakhpakhkrauk
Synonyms of green tea
Forms of green tea
| plural | green teas |
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Origin of green tea
Calque of Chinese 綠茶 /绿茶 (lǜchá).
Calques of Japanese 緑 (みどり midori) and 茶 (お茶 ocha), homonymous to green tea.
Words formed from green tea
Questions about green tea
- What does green tea mean?
- Green tea means leaves of the tea plant which are treated with steam or roasted to denature the enzymes that cause the leaves to darken and change taste. (Without this step they would become oolong tea or black tea).
- What is green tea in Hindi?
- Green tea in Hindi is हरी चाय (harī cāy). See Green tea meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is green tea?
- Green tea can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of green tea?
- The plural of green tea is green teas.
Words near green tea in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: green tea (page history and authors); Green Tea (page history and authors); قہوہ (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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