Paraguay tea

American  

noun

1. mate.

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Paraguay tea British  

noun

1. another name for maté

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Etymology

Origin of Paraguay tea

First recorded in 1720–30

Example Sentences

Hard-boiled Argentine reason for the embargo: an "infant industry" producing Paraguay tea in Argentina has been started in the past few years, gives employment to some 50.000 Argentine laborers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last year a campaign to launch Paraguay tea in New York as "a new drink with a.new kick" petered out.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of the Paraguay tea they have a good store, the yerba being a commodity which packs in small space.

From Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco by Tilney, F.C.

The two chief plants laid under contribution are, however, the Chinese tea-plant, and a species of holly peculiar to South America, producing the Paraguay tea.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.

Ser′on, a bale of about 200 lb. of Paraguay tea wrapped in hide.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various