bush tea

British  

noun

1. a leguminous shrub of the genus Cyclopia , of southern Africa

2. a beverage prepared from the dried leaves of any of these plants

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Example Sentences

Tutu formally retired from public life in the same year to, he said, spend more time "drinking red bush tea and watching cricket" than "in airports and hotels".

From BBC • Dec. 26, 2021

"There, that's real bush tea for you," continued the Duke, in a simmer of satisfaction himself as he stirred the mixture with the stick.

From My Lord Duke by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

Bridget drank the coarse bush tea which the landlady brought in, and was glad that the woman seemed too sulky to want to talk.

From Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life by Praed, Campbell, Mrs.

I members seein' her make holly bush tea, and parched corn tea too for sickness.

From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 by Work Projects Administration

Would Claude join him and then go back to the hut for an early pannikin of bush tea?

From My Lord Duke by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)