Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tea tree

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.48 in modern English

Syllables: tea tree
IPA

7

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The tea plant (Camellia sinensis), from which black, green, oolong and white tea are all obtained.

noun

The tree Melaleuca alternifolia, from which tea tree oil is obtained.

noun

A shrub or small tree native to New Zealand and southeast Australia (Leptospermum scoparium).

noun

The kanuka, Kunzea ericoides.

noun

The duke of Argyll's tea tree (Lycium barbarum), also known as wolfberry or matrimony vine.

noun

The shrub ti (Cordyline fruticosa).

name

A locality in Brighton council area and the Southern Midlands council area, south eastern Tasmania, Australia.

Example Sentences

"It was a subject requiring the figure. The figure of a girl standing in the water, dappled by light and shade through the tea-tree, with the sunlit bank behind her. Bradly scanned the lagoon up and down, searching the clumps of mangrove for the figure of a girl."

Inflected Forms

tea trees (plural)

Phrases

Tea Tree Gully tea tree oil

Synonyms

manuka

Questions

What does tea tree mean?: The tea plant (Camellia sinensis), from which black, green, oolong and white tea are all obtained.

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