The root of the chay plant (referring to tea), possibly used in traditional medicine or cooking.
Compound of 'chay' (tea, from Hindi) plus 'root.' This is a descriptive English formation for the root portion of tea plants or related species.
Tea plant roots were studied extensively by colonial botanists and pharmacists who were trying to understand why tea was so effective medicinally—the whole plant has compounds that European science is still investigating.
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