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qat::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | african tea, arabian tea, cat, kat, khat, quat |
| Type of | excitant, stimulant, stimulant drug |
Examples of qat
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The government has struggled to limit drilling by qat farmers, but to no effect.
From the post-gazette.com
Irrigating qat is also a drain on water reserves that are anyway drying up fast.
From the economist.com
But grumbling is quickly silenced by Ethiopian threats to cut off qat imports.
From the economist.com
Chewing qat is an unproductive hobby that has grown up in an unproductive country.
From the economist.com
An average Yemeni can spend around eight hours a day chewing qat, Nasser says.
From the edition.cnn.com
Kenya profitably exports qat, a leaf stimulant chewed by Somali men, into Jubaland.
From the economist.com
More tellingly, the distribution of qat is the economy's most efficient part.
From the economist.com
Qat spread to the West with refugees and migrants from the region, notably Somalis.
From the economist.com
Q.At the mall, there's a teeth-whitening kiosk that offers a $99 bleaching session.
From the suntimes.com
- Kat: the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea; has the effect of a euphoric stimulant; "in Yemen kat is used daily by 85% of adults"
- Qat is the principal god in the oral mythology of the Banks Islands, a small archipelago of northern Vanuatu, Melanesia.
- Catha edulis (khat, qat) is a flowering plant native to the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Among communities from these areas, khat chewing has a history as a social custom dating back thousands of years.
- Khat
- The three-character ISO 3166 country code for QATAR.
- Jason Pemberton on Fotopedia
