Blue Mountain tea
- noun
- US
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té de Blue Mountain
- The herbalist recommended Blue Mountain tea to help with digestion.
Examples
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You can find dried Blue Mountain tea leaves in some specialty health food stores.
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Many indigenous communities traditionally brewed Blue Mountain tea for its soothing properties.
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I love drinking Blue Mountain tea in the morning.
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Have you tried Blue Mountain tea?
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Many indigenous communities traditionally brewed Blue Mountain tea for its soothing properties.
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The herbalist recommended Blue Mountain tea to help with digestion.
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You can find dried Blue Mountain tea leaves in some specialty health food stores.
Synonyms
A North American plant with sweet-smelling leaves that people use to make a healing tea
A plant from North America with sweet leaves used to make a calming tea
Surface Forms
Morphology
A B1 learner who knows 'blue', 'mountain' and 'tea' will reasonably infer this refers to a kind or name of tea associated with 'Blue Mountain' (i.e., a tea product or variety), so the general category ('a tea') is transparent. However, the specific botanical meaning (an aromatic goldenrod plant whose leaves are used medicinally) and the proper-name/place origins are not derivable from the parts alone, making some details unpredictable without prior exposure.
Etymology
Blue Mountain tea is named for a plant that grew on cool hills called 'Blue Mountains' and was brewed as tea. People made a warm drink from its leaves to help with digestion and aches, so the name now means an aromatic herb used to make a medicinal tea.
