root tea

noun

A type of herbal tea made from any of various roots, sometimes with other ingredients such as leaves and flowers; traditionally mainly a folk medicine (on various continents) and today more often a beverage; traditionally lightly fermented but nonalcoholically so.

Meanings

nounroot tea (countable and uncountable, plural root teas)

plural root teas

  1. countableuncountableA type of herbal tea made from any of various roots, sometimes with other ingredients such as leaves and flowers; traditionally mainly a folk medicine (on various continents) and today more often a beverage; traditionally lightly fermented but nonalcoholically so.
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