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bush tea

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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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

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

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 Mrs. Campbell Praed

"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 E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

First the boiling of the billy—Colin's own particular billy, battered and blackened from much usage—half the battle, he explained, in brewing bush tea.

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

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