Etymology

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Today it means: A kind of green tea from Japan, differing from sencha in being grown in the shade. Full definition →

Japanese 玉露
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  1. Japanese · borrowed from玉露
  2. English todaygyokuro

Borrowed from Japanese 玉露 (literally “jade dew”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.