Meaning of redbush | Babel Free

Definitions

1. rooibos tea
   uncountable
2. rooibos (shrub of genus Aspalathus)
   uncountable

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Examples

“Sitting in her ocher-walled office with its tin roof and itinerant chickens, Mma Ramotswe sips redbush tea and ponders the ethics of her cases: the wife who wants the detective to steal⟳ back the car her husband has stolen; the grief-stricken mother who, with Mma Ramotswe's deft application of a little blackmail, might be reunited with a young grandson.”

“I'm thinking I'm in for a sermon on decaffeinated redbush, or the antioxidant properties of organic camomile.”

“Herbal teas: redbush, rosehip tea, peppermint etc.”

“In the Cape region of South Africa the leaves of the wild redbush [Aspalathus linearis (Burm. f.) R. Dahlgr.] are collected by farmers for export as Rooibos tea.”

“I shall not write⟳ about the estimable maté, Ilex paraguayensis, which is a holly, nor of rooibos, redbush (Aspalathus linearis), of the pea family, nor of any of the flowery infusions from camomile to hibiscus which have⟳ usurped the name⟳ of tea.”

“One of the few foodstuffs of the indigenous Khoikhoi and San people that European colonists adopted with any enthusiasm was a tea made from the dried, fermented leaf tips of a scrubby bushveld plant⟳, Aspalathus linearis, known as redbush or rooibos.”

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