hybrid tea

noun

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

Origin of hybrid tea

First recorded in 1885–90

Mike dearly loved cauliflowers, and babied ours as a flower gardener babies his hybrid tea roses.
The Idyl of Twin Fires | Walter Prichard Eaton
But it is among the Tea and hybrid tea roses that we find our richest harvest of autumn flowering climbers.
Roses and Rose Growing | Rose Georgina Kingsley
Farther north these roses need protection similar to that given to the tea and hybrid tea roses.
Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 | Various
The foliage is rich, and the tree never seems attacked by any disease; it is a hybrid tea.
Small Gardens | Violet Purton Biddle

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