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definition
A partially fermented tea, often roasted, which combines the characteristics of green tea and black tea.
Examples of oolong in a Sentence
A Chiu Chow meal is typically polished off with oolong tea as a digestive aid.
Black, green, oolong, white and herbal teas are available infused with many different flavors.
Camellia sinensis, or tea plant, can be processed a number of ways to create different varieties of tea, like black, oolong, green or white.
Green teas as well as white, oolong, and black teas are all created using the same plant and applying different processing or growing methods.
Green tea is less processed than black or oolong teas.
Where black and oolong teas go through withering, rolling, oxidizing, drying, and sorting, green and white teas are not oxidized, or fermented, as part of processing.
Oolong teas are less processed than black tea and more processed than green tea, however this type is not available in the Four O'clock brand.
Apart from that it's the degree of fermentation that determines whether you end up with green, oolong or black tea.
Whether it is black, green oolong or scented depends on the treatment it receives after picking.
The export production of the island of Formosa is limited to a particular class of tea termed Formosa Oolong, practically all produced for the United States Oolong.