Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A dark Chinese tea that has been partially fermented before drying.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A variety of black tea with the flavor of green tea. Also written oulong.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A fragrant variety of black tea having somewhat the flavor of green tea.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A partially fermented tea which combines the characteristics of green tea and black tea.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun Chinese tea leaves that have been partially fermented before being dried

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Chinese (Mandarin) wūlóng(chá), black dragon (tea) (or a kindred source in another variety of Chinese ) : , crow, black (in reference to the color of the crow) (from Middle Chinese ˀuə̆) + lóng, dragon; see longan.]

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1850s. From Chinese 烏龍 (wūlóng), from  (wū, "black") +  (lóng, "dragon")

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