red tea

noun

1

: rooibos sense 2

Give yourself a non-alcoholic "happy hour" and unwind with South-African red tea or "rooibos" … a caffeine free low tannin tea-like beverage.

—Stephen Exel

2

: black tea

What Westerners call black tea is red tea for the Chinese. Although the color of the tea looks black, the leaves and soup after brewing look red.

—Ye Jun

Examples of red tea in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Rooibos Tea Also known as red tea, rooibos tea is a caffeine-free beverage that is made from leaves of the Aspalathus linearis shrub. —Lauren Manaker Ms, Rdn, Ld, Verywell Health, 20 Mar. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1848, in the meaning defined at sense 2