The term refers either to tea leaf composed of uneven pieces or to infused leaf that contains red, green and black colors due to uneven withering, fermentation, or rolling.
'Uneven' pieces of leaf particles indicating poor sorting and resulting in a tea not true to a particular grade.
Term used to describe tea leaf composed of irregular shaped pieces indicating bad sorting. When applied to the infused leaf the term means that it contains mixed red, green and black colours resulting from uneven withering, fermentation or rolling.