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In the narrowest sense of the word, tea refers to leaves or flower buds of shrubs in the genus Camellia sinensis and sometimes referrred to as Thea sinensis. Broadly speaking, tea is any drink made from steeping fragrant leaves, berries, seeds, flowers, roots or bark in boiling water for a short period of time.