Reading Tea Leaves

Tasseography

Tasseography is a divination or fortune-telling method that interprets patterns in tea leaves, coffee grounds, or wine sediments.

Camellia sinensis

Camellia sinensis, commonly known as tea plant, tea shrub, and tea tree, is a species of evergreen shrub in the flowering plant family Theaceae. Originally native to the highlands of the Hengduan–Purvanchal region between southwestern China, northern Myanmar and northeastern India, the leaves, buds and stems of C. sinensis are harvested by humans to produce tea, leading to its artificial introduction and cultivation as valuable cash crops in many other parts of the world, with China, India and Kenya being the three largest tea-producing countries.

Reading

Reading is the process of taking in the sense or meaning of the symbols of a written language, by means of sight or touch. The ability to read is called literacy.

Tea

Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by infusion of hot or boiling fresh water with fresh or cured leaves of Camellia sinensis, an evergreen shrub native to East Asia that originated in the borderlands of southwestern China, northeast India and northern Myanmar. Tea has a stimulant effect in humans primarily due to its caffeine content.

reading

Verb

1. present participle and gerund of read

Noun

1. The process of interpreting written language.
2. The process of interpreting a symbol, a sign or a measuring device.

tea

Symbol

1. ISO 639-3 language code for Temiar.

Noun

1. The tea plant (Camellia sinensis); a variety of this plant.
2. The dried leaves or buds of the tea plant; a variety of such leaves.

leaves

Noun

1. plural of leaf
2. from leave.

Verb

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of leave