root tea

English

Noun

root tea (countable and uncountable, plural root teas)

1. A type of herbal tea made from any of various roots, sometimes with other ingredients such as leaves and flowers; traditionally mainly a folk medicine (on various continents) and today more often a beverage; traditionally lightly fermented but nonalcoholically so.

   Hypernym: herbal tea

   Coordinate terms: birch beer, ginger beer, root beer