Con·gou Con·go, n. Black tea, of higher grade (finer leaf and less dusty) than the present bohea. Also called {English breakfast tea}. See Tea.
Of black teas, the great mass is called Congou, or the =\“well worked”, a name which took the place of the Bohea of 150 years ago, and is now itself giving way to the term “English breakfast tea.”\= --S. W. Williams.
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Eng·lish a. Of or pertaining to England, or to its inhabitants, or to the present so-called Anglo-Saxon race.
English bond Arch. See 1st Bond, n., 8.
English breakfast tea. See Congou.
English horn. Mus. See Corno Inglese.
English walnut. Bot. See under Walnut.
English breakfast tea
n : black tea grown in China [syn: congou, congo, congou
tea]