Bohea Definition

bō-hē
noun
A black Chinese tea, originally the choicest grade but later an inferior variety.
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Origin of Bohea

  • From Chinese (Amoy or a closely related dialect) Bú î (soan) , the Wuyi mountain range, located on the border of Jiangxi and Fujian provinces, where prized teas are grown akin to Mandarin Wǔ yí (shān)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Bú-î, a local pronunciation of 武夷 (WÇ”yí), for the Wuyi Mountains in Fujian, where the tea is grown.

    From Wiktionary

Bohea Sentence Examples

  • The instructions of 1700 directed the supercargoes to send home 300 tubs of the finer green teas and 80 tubs of bohea.

  • In 1703 orders were given for "75, 000 lb Singlo (green), 10,000 lb imperial, and 20,000 lb bohea."

  • Thea Bohea and Thea viridis, and it was erroneously assumed that the former was the source of black teas, while Thea viridis was held to yield the green varieties.

  • Of the foregoing, the teas of commerce are derived almost entirely from the varieties Viridis and Bohea.

  • From the variety Bohea, or from hybrids of descent from it, came the China teas of former days and the earlier plantings in India grown from imported China stock.

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