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What do you call the sediment of (unstrained brewed) tea (or any other herbs) settles at the bottom of the cup or the teapot?

I have found the word "dregs" but I don't know if it can be used for tea or not.

PS:

I know that "coffee grounds"is another term for those sediments in a cup of coffee.

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Best Answer

Dregs simply means

the ​small ​solid ​pieces that ​sink to the ​bottom of some ​liquids, such as ​wine or ​coffee, that are not usually ​drunk:

You could certainly refer to the remnants of tea using the same term, and there are several instances online of this (7,750 results on google).

However, a lot of Brits would instead refer to them as tea leaves, using the same term for the remains as for the substance used to make the beverage in question.

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