hybrid tea

noun

1. a type of cultivated rose originally produced chiefly by crossing the tea rose and the hybrid perpetual.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hybrid tea¹

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

Mike dearly loved cauliflowers, and babied ours as a flower gardener babies his hybrid tea roses.

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But it is among the Tea and Hybrid Tea roses that we find our richest harvest of autumn flowering climbers.

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Farther north these roses need protection similar to that given to the tea and hybrid tea roses.

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The foliage is rich, and the tree never seems attacked by any disease; it is a Hybrid Tea.

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