DARJEELING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Darjeeling mean? 

• DARJEELING (noun)
  The noun DARJEELING has 1 sense:

1. a fine variety of black tea grown in northern India

  Familiarity information: DARJEELING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DARJEELING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fine variety of black tea grown in northern India

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("Darjeeling" is a kind of...):

black tea (fermented tea leaves)

 Context examples 

Some of them that fled into Nepaul took me with them, and then afterwards I was up past Darjeeling.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A wild-type zebrafish line, the stock of which was obtained from an expedition to Darjeeling, India.

(India Zebrafish, NCI Thesaurus)

A wild-type zebrafish line, the stock of which was collected in Darjeeling, India in 1987.

(Darjeeling Zebrafish, NCI Thesaurus)