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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.
WordNet
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n. a Chinese green tea with twisted leaves
Wikipedia
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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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A Chinese green tea.
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.