Meaning of Brazilian tea | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The dried leaves of plants of certain species, or the tea-like infusions made from them, especially Lippia pseudo-thea (native to Brazil), Stachytarpheta mutabilis and Stachytarpheta jamaicensis.
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2. Maté, a beverage made from the leaves of yerba mate (Ilex paraguariensis).
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Examples

“The leaves of Verbascum Phoenicium, according to Pallas, are used in Siberia as a substitute for tea; and the dried leaves of Bouchea pseudo-gervao, in Brazil, in the same way as Stachytarpheta Jamaicensis, a small shrub, growing in South America. The leaves of S. mutabilis are sold in Austria under the name⟳ of Brazilian tea.”

“Brazilian (Stachtarpha^([sic]) jamaicensis), a tall, single-stemmed biennial, with spikes of blue flowers, of the Verbena family (Verbenaceae), native of the West Indies and many parts of tropical America. In Brazil it is held in high repute for its medicinal virtues, and is said to be imported into Austria as Brazilian Tea.”

“Lantana pseudothea, or Lippia pseudothea, is used in Brazil as a substitute for tea.”

“Brazilian tea (Lippia pseudo-thea) [Verbenaceae] Gervao: The leaves of this small tropical American shrub of the Verbenaceae family are sold in Austria and possibly elsewhere as Brazilian tea.”

“The various peoples of the world prefer⟳ different caffeine beverages, but coffee and tea alone are really competitors. The number⟳ of plants used as substitutes for genuine tea is extremely large. I am aware of some two hundred, among them the following: […] stachytarpheta (Brazilian tea), […].”

“At the Health Exhibition will be found many examples of Brazilian tea, the produce⟳ of the Brazilian holly, Ilex Paraguayensis. They may be recognized by their dull yellowish colour, and by their being in small flat fragments of broken leaf, not curled or rolled as is the case with China tea.”

“MATTE, (Special sort⟳ of Brazilian tea or holly,) Bot. Ilex Paraguayensis. 747. Ildefonso Correa. Province of Paranã. MATTE. NOTE⟳.--- These samples of Matte have⟳ been prepared in the same way that is used to prepare⟳ it for exportation to Chili[…]”

“The United States, in 1938, bought 27 metric tons of the plain and the processed types of Brazilian tea [herva-mate, ilex], as against 30 metric tons in 1937.”

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