Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A lightly sparkling beverage made by fermenting black or green tea and sugar with a culture of various bacteria and yeasts.
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- noun A
fermentation ofsweetened tea .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Whatever it is, kombucha is entering a renaissance after millennia of use in China and centuries in Eastern Europe, from whence all good fermented things come.
Boing Boing 2007
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AUSTIN, Texas mdash; Whole Foods is removing a fermented, sweetened tea called kombucha from its shelves because of concerns over slightly elevated alcohol levels.
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AUSTIN, Texas — Whole Foods is removing a fermented, sweetened tea called kombucha from its shelves because of concerns over slightly elevated alcohol levels.
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Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 3: 33 p.m. AUSTIN, Texas - Whole Foods is removing a fermented, sweetened tea called kombucha from its shelves because of concerns over slightly elevated alcohol levels.
Fore, right! 2010
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Apparently there's been some brouhaha on the national level about elevated alcohol levels in some kombucha, which is generally known to carry trace amounts of alcohol due to the fermentation process.
News 2010
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AUSTIN, Texas - Whole Foods is removing a fermented, sweetened tea called kombucha from its shelves because of concerns over slightly elevated alcohol levels.
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AUSTIN, Texas - AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Whole Foods is removing a fermented, sweetened tea called kombucha from its shelves because of concerns over slightly elevated alcohol levels.
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Don't buy it if: You think "duck egg" is a warning and a "kombucha" is an NJS keirin frame.
Warming the Cockles: Living, Breathing, Shopping BikeSnobNYC 2010
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Stylish Mama Charon is a stylist and arts impresario with a ready bowl of kombucha.
Gordy Grundy: The Artist's Time and Place in Echo Park Gordy Grundy 2011
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Stylish Mama Charon is a stylist and arts impresario with a ready bowl of kombucha.
Gordy Grundy: The Artist's Time and Place in Echo Park Gordy Grundy 2011
asativum commented on the word kombucha
Tea fermented with acetobacter and yeast, apparently called "tea mushroom" (чайный гриб) in Russian and mildly alcoholic (0.5% to 1.5%, according to Wikipedia's kombucha entry).
September 14, 2008