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Answer for the clue "Tea variety ", 5 letters:
hyson

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n. a Chinese green tea with twisted leaves

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hyson \Hy"son\, n. [Chin. hi-tshun, lit., first crop, or blooming spring.] A fragrant kind of green tea. Hyson skin , the light and inferior leaves separated from the hyson by a winnowing machine. --M`Culloch.

Usage examples of hyson.

Either Hyson has blundered wonderfully, or some magnetic influence has disturbed our instruments.

Just about daybreak the watch on the fo'csle-head shouted out that he heard the sound of surf ahead, and Hyson thought he saw the loom of land.

And this robotics bigbrain named Hyson showed us a tape of some new androids they've got in California.

I tell Council as I git older I don't seem to enjoy Young Hyson n'r Gunpowder.

One stack was delicate Young Hyson while the next was partially fermented Oolong, known in Chinese as the "black dragon.