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Certain Chinese green tea
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hyson
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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.
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Hyson , or Lucky Dragon Tea , is a Chinese green tea that comes from the Anhui province of China. It is made from young leaves that are thinly rolled to have a long, twisted appearance that unfurls when brewed. The name Hyson is likely a Cantonese name ...
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n. a Chinese green tea with twisted leaves
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.